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Scattering of Microwaves by Adjacent Water Droplets in Air

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THE scattering by a single, homogeneous sphere, located in a parallel beam of electromagnetic radiation, is given by Mie's1 solution of Maxwell's equations.

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LILLESÆTER, O. Scattering of Microwaves by Adjacent Water Droplets in Air. Nature 202, 1103–1104 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2021103a0

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