Hello,

I am currently trying to incorporate Mie scattering into Monte-Carlo simulations of radiative transfer in clouds of complex geometry. I try to have something more precise and more original than lookup tables. Thus I need an approximation of the Mie theory at large size parameter : the Mie theory is still exact but too slow in these conditions.

Up to now, the best such approximation that I found comes from Herch Moysés Nussenzweig in the 1960's. However, his work applies to scalar waves in nonabsorbing materials (HMN anounces in those publications that we would give a generalization for EM waves in absorbing droplets... Seems he did not published it.). I am interested in EM waves in water.

I try to do it myself from his work, and it turns out it is very long and complicated theory. May did one already make it ? I do not find such a publication.

Best regards

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