Key words: radiation transfer, lidar sensing, polarization, cloudy atmosphere, crystal clouds, optically anisotropic media, multiple scattering, oriented particles, halo, albedo, Monte Carlo method, stochastic simulation

• "LIDAR multiple scattering from clouds including spherical and non-spherical particles" (01-0239), 2002-2004

• “Ground-based and space-borne multiple scattering LIDAR returns from arbitrary oriented particles including polarization considerations and wide-angle imaging” (05-1000008-8024), 2006-2008