Ocean Optics – Fundamental Studies and Applied Designs

Abstract

This special issue is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outstanding Soviet scientist in the field of atmospheric and ocean optics, Prof. K. S. Shifrin. The content relates only to one of the directions of the many-sided scientific activity of KS. Shifrin, which covered both the electrical properties of semiconductors, and the scattering of electromagnetic waves by particles, and the inverse problems of scattering theory, and propagation of the radiation in the atmosphere, the kinetics of cloud formation and precipitation, and the development of the method of passive microwave thermal radiolocation. The presentations on the main achievements of K. S. Shifrin were made at the special session held within the framework of the XIV All-Russian Conference "Applied Hydroacoustic and Hydrophysics Technologies" (GA-2018), St. Petersburg, May 23-25, 2018. The articles based on these presentations are planned to publish in one of the nearest issues of "Fundamental and Applied Hydrophysics".