Abstract

Determining particle-size distributions from elastic scattering from complex (polydisperse, multicomponent) aerosols has had considerable attention because of its remote-sensing applications. Attention has been given to analytic inversion techniques utilizing the near-forward-diffraction approximation as well as other more exotic techniques utilizing cross correlation, laser diffraction, phase Doppler interferometry, etc. These techniques all have difficulty when the aerosols become optically dense.

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