Craig F. Bohren is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Professor Bohren is the author of several books, and the first recipient of the American Meteorological Society's Louis J. Battan Award for Authors.

Donald R. Huffman (1935-2025) was Regents Professor of Physics at the University of Arizona. Professor Huffman was honored (along with colleague Wolfgang Krätschmer) with the MRS medal and shared in the 1994 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize.

Eugene E. Clothiaux is a Professor of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science at The Pennsylvania State University, USA. Professor Clothiaux has written several contributions on millimeter wave cloud radar and atmospheric radiation.

Volume I

Preface to the First Edition xi

Preface to the Second Edition xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

1. Introduction 1

2. Electromagnetic Theory 27

3. Absorption and Scattering by an Arbitrary Particle 135

4. Absorption, Scattering, and Emission by a Sphere 177

5. Particles Small Compared with the Wavelength 279

6. Rayleigh-Gans Approximation 349

7. Geometrical Optics 365

Volume II

Preface to the First Edition xiii

Preface to the Second Edition xv

Acknowledgments xix

8. A Potpourri of Particles 417

9. Classical Theories of Optical Constants 509

10. Measured Optical Constants 573

11. Extinction 605

12. Surface Modes in Small Particles 685

13. Directional Dependence of Scattering 753

References 817

Index 897