Large-sphere limit of the radar back-scattering coefficient

✍ Scribed by J. E. McDonald

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1962
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 285 KB
• Volume: 88
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0035-9009
• DOI: 10.1002/qj.49708837610

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In the limit of large scatterer diameters, the Mie theory must converge to geometrical optics. Previous results of Mie‐theory calculations of the radar back‐scattering coefficient σ~b~ have suggested that its large‐sphere limit is the ordinary reflection coefficient R of the scattering material. A proof that this is the asymptotic value of σ~b~ is given.