The workshop will be the eleventh in a series of meetings which began in
1986. The last two meetings were held in Florence in April 1999 and
Jerusalem in September 1997. The workshop is open to all researchers
interested in lidar techniques with particular attention to problems
related to the effects of multiple scattering on the intensity and
polarization of lidar returns. The main focus of MUSCLE 11, as in previous
meetings, is on effects at optical (UV through near-IR) wavelengths.
The following list of subjects will be dealt with during the workshop.
Given the number of satellite lidars recently under development (ELISE,
GLAS, SPARCLE, PICASSO, ERM, etc.), there is a special interest in
papers on multiple scattering effects on lidar observations from satellites.
In keeping with MUSCLE tradition, the communitee will also consider other
related topics relevant to the main purpose of the meeting.
- Theoretical and numerical methods for calculating the intensity and
polarization of multiply scattered lidar returns.
- Inversion techniques using multiple scattering for the characterization
of cloud aerosol properties.
- Propagation of light pulses in thick clouds.
- Multiple scattering effects on measurements by Raman, DIAL,
and coherent lidars
- Innovative measurement techniques from ground-based, airborne, or
satellite lidars
- Laboratory experiments
- Single and multiple scattering from non-spherical particles
One session will be devoted to results of the homework problem defined at
the MUSCLE 10 workshop.
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