"Light and Water: Radiative Transfer in Natural Waters" by Curtis D. Mobley

This volume offers a treatment of radiative transfer theory in a format tailored to the specific needs of optical oceanography, with applications to real problems. It develops the basic theory and reviews the current literature. Numerical methods for solving radiative transfer equations are then detailed, with equations describing transpectral effects, internal surfaces, and surface effects.

The book illustrates the nature of underwater light fields and their dependence on water optical properties and external environmental conditions and also summarizes the optical properties of natural waters in forms suitable for input into radiative transfer predictive models.
The book interweaves two levels of discussion.
The first, suitable for all oceanography graduate students, develops the basic theory and reviews the current literature on optical oceanography.
The second, which will appeal to researchers inthe field, develops numerical methods for solving radiative transfer equations.

Key Features
• Develops radiative transfer equations to include transpectral effects, internal surfaces, and surface effects
• Explains in detail the equations governing the propagation of visible light across air-water surfaces and within water bodies
• Summarizes the optical properties of natural waters in forms suitable for input into radiative transfer predictive models
• Provides numerical methods for solutions of radiative transfer equations in settings that are realistic approximations of nature
• Illustrates the nature of underwater light fields and their dependence on water optical properties and external environmental conditions

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: FUNDAMENTALS
1. Radiometry
2. Photometry
3. Optical Properties of Water
PART II: RADIATIVE TRANSFER
4. Across the Surface
5. Within the Water
PART III: SOLUTION METHODS
6. Monte Carlo Methods
7. Invariant Imbedding Methods: Introduction
8. Invariant Imbedding Methods: Solving the RTE
9. Eigenmatrix Methods
10. Inverse Methods
PART IV: SOLUTIONS
11. Underwater Light Fields
Epilogue
References
Index
Supplementary Notes