forward scatter

From Glossary of Meteorology
Scattering into directions forward of a plane through the scattering center and orthogonal to the incident direction.

Forward scatter makes up half of the total Rayleigh scatter. This fraction increases with increasing particle size at a given wavelength, so that large particle scatter is predominantly forward scatter.
See also asymmetry factor.

Scattering into directions forward of a plane through the scattering center and orthogonal to the incident direction.

An aggregation of sufficiently many atoms or molecules that it can be assigned macroscopic properties such as volume, density, pressure, and temperature.

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