SCATTERING MATRICES AND RECIPROCITY RELATIONSHIPS FOR VARIOUS REPRESENTATIONS OF THE STATE OF POLARIZATION,

This work is a continuation of a study designed to put the theory of scattering and transfer of solar radiation in planetary atmospheres on a rigorous mathematical basis. The work examines several schemes for the complete quantitative description of a stream of radiation with regard to their suitability to the treatment of this theory. Relations between these schemes are found and certain conclusions about their properties are reached. The analytical effort combines classical field-theoretical concepts and optical principles with modern matrix mathematics to make full use of high-speed computers in numerical modeling experiments. Author