InhaltsangabeModelling concepts in aerosol optics; coordinate and momentum representations in the theory of light scattering by disperse media; internal intensity distributions and integral absorption characteristics; light scattering and absorption by two- and multilayered spheres; light scattering by water-containing atmospheric aerosol particles; light scattering by radially inhomogeneous particles; light scattering by weakly inhomogeneous and weakly anisotropic particles; some practical aspects of light scattering by inhomogeneous and anisotropic particles; Appendix: special functions (Bessel functions, Legendre functions, vector spherical functions, Wigner D functions); library of computer codes on light scattering (editors' web site); light scattering codes on the Internet.