Mie Scattering

• Scattering:
• Light can be scattered.....redirected in many directions
• We will consider two types of scattering that occur in the atmosphere

• Mie Scattering
• large particles in the atmosphere are able to scatter all wavelengths of white light equally 
• when all wavelengths of white light are scattered equally, then Mie scattering is occurring
• this is why clouds appear white....
• however, if a cloud is optically thick, then little light will penetrate through the cloud....
• when little light can penetrate to a particular location in a cloud, such as cloud base, how will it look?????