Kuo-Nan Liou is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr Liou has received numerous awards including the 1998 Jule G. Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society, for his pioneering work in the theory and application of radiative transport and its interaction with clouds, and the 2013 Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica. Ping Yang is Professor and Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences, at Texas A & M University, where his research interests cover the areas of remote sensing and radiative transfer. He received the 2013 Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union of which he is an elected Fellow.

'… the book by Liou and Yang is a comprehensive account of light scattering by atmospheric ice crystals and is unique in its combination of breadth and depth of content. It is a must for all graduate students and experts specializing in atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate research and can serve as an essential supplement to the corresponding graduate lecture courses. Owing to the wealth of up-to-date material, this book belongs on the researcher's desk rather than on a library bookshelf.' Michael I. Mishchenko, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

• Preface; 1. Ice in the Earth's atmosphere; 2. Fundamentals of light scattering by ice crystals; 3. Principle of geometric optics for application to light scattering by ice crystals; 4. Other useful approaches for light scattering by ice particles; 5. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to remote sensing; 6. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to climate studies; References; Index.

Kuo-Nan Liou is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr Liou has received numerous awards including the 1998 Jule G. Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society, for his pioneering work in the theory and application of radiative transport and its interaction with clouds, and the 2013 Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica. Ping Yang is Professor and Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences, at Texas A & M University, where his research interests cover the areas of remote sensing and radiative transfer. He received the 2013 Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union of which he is an elected Fellow.

'… the book by Liou and Yang is a comprehensive account of light scattering by atmospheric ice crystals and is unique in its combination of breadth and depth of content. It is a must for all graduate students and experts specializing in atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate research and can serve as an essential supplement to the corresponding graduate lecture courses. Owing to the wealth of up-to-date material, this book belongs on the researcher's desk rather than on a library bookshelf.' Michael I. Mishchenko, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

• Preface; 1. Ice in the Earth's atmosphere; 2. Fundamentals of light scattering by ice crystals; 3. Principle of geometric optics for application to light scattering by ice crystals; 4. Other useful approaches for light scattering by ice particles; 5. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to remote sensing; 6. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to climate studies; References; Index.

Kuo-Nan Liou is a Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and founding director of the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr Liou has received numerous awards including the 1998 Jule G. Charney Award from the American Meteorological Society, for his pioneering work in the theory and application of radiative transport and its interaction with clouds, and the 2013 Roger Revelle Medal from the American Geophysical Union for outstanding contributions in atmospheric sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica. Ping Yang is Professor and Head of the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, and the David Bullock Harris Chair in Geosciences, at Texas A & M University, where his research interests cover the areas of remote sensing and radiative transfer. He received the 2013 Ascent Award from the Atmospheric Sciences Section of the American Geophysical Union of which he is an elected Fellow.

'… the book by Liou and Yang is a comprehensive account of light scattering by atmospheric ice crystals and is unique in its combination of breadth and depth of content. It is a must for all graduate students and experts specializing in atmospheric radiation, remote sensing, and climate research and can serve as an essential supplement to the corresponding graduate lecture courses. Owing to the wealth of up-to-date material, this book belongs on the researcher's desk rather than on a library bookshelf.' Michael I. Mishchenko, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer

• Preface; 1. Ice in the Earth's atmosphere; 2. Fundamentals of light scattering by ice crystals; 3. Principle of geometric optics for application to light scattering by ice crystals; 4. Other useful approaches for light scattering by ice particles; 5. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to remote sensing; 6. Application of light scattering by ice crystals to climate studies; References; Index.