EFFECT OF AIR BUBBLES ON ABSORPTION OF SOLAR-RADIATION BY WATER DROPLETS

It was suggested that absorption by a weakly absorbing droplet may be increased substantially by the presence of air bubbles within a drople t. The authors use an exact solution of the scattering of electromagne tic waves by a spherical particle containing an arbitrarily located sp herical inclusion to investigate absorption of solar radiation by wate r droplets containing air bubbles. The presence of air bubbles within water droplets was found to have no significant effect on the absorpti on of solar radiation.