Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Transfer Radiative Transfer 86 (2004) III-V www.elsevier.com/locate/jqsrt List of Contents NUMBER 1 L.H. Liu, K. Kudo, A. Mochida, Radiative heat transfer analysis in pure water heater used for T. Ogawa and K. Kadotani semiconductor processing N. Berour, D. Lacroix, P. Boulet Radiative and conductive heat transfer in a nongrey semitran- and G. Jeandel sparent medium. Application to fire protection curtains M. Lazard Semi-transparent slab and kernel substitution method: review and determination of the optimal coefficients J.R. Worden, K.W. Bowman and Two-dimensional characterization of atmospheric profile D.B. Jones retrievals from limb sounding observations B.A. Fomin, T.A. Udalova and Evolution of spectroscopic information over the last decade E.A. Zhitnitskii and its effect on line-by-line calculations for validation of radiation codes for climate models J. Borkowska-Burnecka, W. Zyrnicki, Rotational and vibrational temperatures measured in a K.D. Setzer and E.H. Fink chemiluminescent flame from FTIR Biz emission spectra Notes J.-q. Pang, Z.-q. Wu and G.-x. Han Analytic formulae of bound-free Gaunt factor under the hydrogenic Coulomb field L.B. Barichello, P. Rodrigues and On computing the Chapman-Enskog and Burnett functions C.E. Siewert NUMBER 2 R. Schofield, B.J. Connor, K. Kreher, The retrieval of profile and chemical information from ground- P.V. Johnston and C.D. Rodgers based UV-visible spectroscopic measurements B. Rutily, L. Chevallier and J. Integral equations satisfied by the H- X- and Y-functions and Bergeat the albedo problem A. Zerarka and V.G. Foester Transfer-excitation cross section in the independent electron model at high velocities: S'°*+ + H collision V.P. Tishkovets and M.I. Mishchenko Coherent backscattering of light by a layer of discrete random medium IV List of Contents | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 86 (2004) III-V H.K. Kim and T.-H. Song 181 Characteristics of SRS inversion for measurement of tempera- ture and CO, concentration profile of a combustion gas layer S. Heilliette, A. Chedin, N.A. Scott Parametrization of the effect of surface reflection on spectral and R. Armante infrared radiance measurements. Application to IASI H.-S. Li Reduction of false scattering in arbitrarily specified discrete directions of the discrete ordinates method H. Kavak, S. Eker and A. Mamedov Harmonic oscillator model and determination of optical parameters W. Ruyten Comment on ‘“‘A new implementation of the Humlicek algorithm for the calculation of the Voigt profile function” by M. Kuntz [JQSRT 57(6) (1997) 819-824] NUMBER 3 Z.N. Begum Radiative forcing of aerosols and gases over tropical ocean and its impact on the global atmospheric environment: GCM investigations during INDOEX campaigns V.P. Tishkovets, E.V. Petrova and Optical properties of aggregate particles comparable in size to K. Jockers the wavelength R.J. Exton and R.J. Balla ArF laser excitation, collisional transfer, and quench-free fluorescence in I/foreign gas mixtures D. Nikolic, S. Djurovi¢c, Z. Mijatovic, Determination of ion-broadening parameter for some Ar I R. Kobilarov, B. Vujici¢ and spectral lines M. Cirisan J.C. Chai, P.-f. Hsu and Y.C. Lam Three-dimensional transient radiative transfer modeling using the finite-volume method B. Bulgarelli and J.P. Doyle Comparison between numerical models for radiative transfer simulation in the atmosphere—ocean system Z. Dai, H. Jiang, W. Peng and Energy levels of Rydberg 6pnd and 6png J = 3 states of PbI by J. Zhankui multichannel quantum defect theory NUMBER 4 L.M. Ruan, H. Qi, L.H. Liu The radiative transfer in cylindrical medium and partition and H.P. Tan allocation method by overlap regions U. Turgut and M. Ertugrul A study on anisotropy of L2 to L3 Coster—Kronig transition (f23) for Th and U elements H. Elloumi, G. Zissis, T. Berthier Time-dependent behavior of a pulsed high power xenon and J.J. Damelincourt flashlamp. Application to the Mega-Joule laser pumping List of Contents | Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy & Radiative Transfer 86 (2004) III-V V A. Elgarayhi and A. Elhanbaly 371 General solution of the aerosol dynamic equation: growth and diffusion processes R. Ekinci and N. Ekinci 379 An alternative method for the determination of element concen- trations in schizophrenic, lung cancer and leukaemia patient bloods C. Mitrescu and G.L. Stephens 387 On similarity and scaling of the radiative transfer equation E.E. Remsberg, L.L. Gordley, Lb The Nimbus 7 LIMS version 6 radiance conditioning and B.T. Marshall, R.E. Thompson, temperature retrieval methods and results J. Burton, P. Bhatt, V.L. Harvey, G. Lingenfelser and M. Natarajan A.V. Domanskaya, M.V. Tonkov Structure and broadening coefficients (He, Ar and N>2) of the v4 and J. Boissoles band of CF, W.F. Wang Improved convergence of a non-perturbative semi-classical pressure broadening model List of Contents/Author Index