Scripps Institution of Oceanography

SIO Reference 58-41. The most general relation for the divergence of the light vector is derived from the equation of transfer for an arbitrary optical medium, and is shown to yield a direct means of determining the volume absorption function in natural aerosols and hydrosols. It is also shown that a correct special form of the divergence relation (for the slab geometry) is derivable from the classical Schuster equations and their solutions.