THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF REMOTE SENSING OF AEROSOL REFRACTIVE INDEX BY ANGULAR SCATTERING METHOD

This paper introduces the functions representing quantitatively the sensitivity of the volume scattering function to the aerosol refractive index, points out the scattering angle regions where volume scattering function is more sensitive to the real part of refractive index or its imaginary part, and analyzes the correlativity between scattering channels. Furthermore, we have analyzed optimum channels of remote sensing of refractive index, and satisfactory inversion results have been obtained when the optimum channels were used in retrieving refractive index.