Diese Arbeit betrachtet die Wechselwirkung von solarer Einstrahlung mit Wolken in der Atmosphäre. Diese wird insbesondere repräsentiert durch den Wolkenstrahlungseffekt. Hierbei wurde vor allem auf die Auswirkungen von kleinskaliger Variabilität von Wolken und Wolkenfeldern auf die Genauigkeit des Wolkenstrahlungseffektes am Oberrand der Atmosphäre und am Boden Rücksicht genommen. Mit einer Schliessungsstudie ist der modellierte Wolkenstrahlungseffekt mit Schiffsmessungen verglichen worden. Hierbei wurden die Wolkeneigenschaften in dem Modell durch Schiffs- und Satellitendaten als Eingangsdatensatz beschrieben. Ein Zugewinn in der Genauigkeit konnte durch die kombinierte Nutzung beider Datenquellen erzielt werden, konkret durch die Kombination des Flüssigwasserpfads aus Schiffsmessungen und des effektiven Radius aus Satellitenbeobachtungen. Durch die Schliessungsstudie sind zwei Probleme in der Auflösung kleinskaliger Bewölkung und deren Auswirkung auf abgeleitete Wolkeneigenschaften identifiziert worden, die im weiteren Verlauf der Arbeit genauer betrachtet wurden. Ein Vergleich zweier Methoden zur Erkennung des Bedeckungsgrades, jeweils eine vom Boden und eine vom Oberrand der Atmosphäre, hat insgesamt eine gute Übereinstimmung ergeben. Jedoch zeigten sich Abweichungen bei geringer Bedeckung. So wurde bei einem Bedeckungsgrad von ca. 40% in der Hälfte der Fälle den Satellitenbildpunkt als bewölkt klassifiziert. Diese Unsicherheiten in der Klassifikation konnten auf die abgeleitete reflektierte solare Einstrahlung übertragen werden. Für als unbewölkt erkannte, tatsächlich aber bewölkte, Bildpunkte wurde eine mittlere Überschätzung der reflektierte solare Einstrahlung von ca. 30 W/m−2 gefunden. Ebenfalls wurde der Einfluss der zeitlichen Variabilität in der solaren Einstrahlung auf die Bestimmung des Wolkenstrahlungseffektes einer Wolke untersucht. Hierfür wurde ein lineares Modell entwickelt und präsentiert, das die diffuse Einstrahlung mit dem Bedeckungsgrad in Zusammenhang stellt. Das Modell liefert zwei Koeffizienten, die die Variation der diffusen Einstrahlung durch eine Wolke unter der Annahme, dass die beobachtete Wolke den ganzen Himmel bedeckt, beschreiben. Dies ermöglicht einen direkten Vergleich des Wolkenstrahlungseffektes einer beobachteten Wolke mit Modellergebnissen und die Entkopplung von der zeitlich variablen direkten Einstrahlung.

Recently the radiative B-decay to strange axial-vector mesons, B--> K1(1270) gamma, was observed with a rather large branching ratio. This process is particularly interesting as the subsequent K1-decay into its three-body final state allows us to determine the polarization of the photon, which is mostly left(right)-handed for Bbar(B) in the Standard Model while various new physics models predict additional right(left)-handed components. In this thesis, a new method is proposed to determine the polarization, exploiting the full Dalitz plot distribution, which seems to reduce significantly the statistical errors on the polarization parameter lambda_gamma measurement.This polarization measurement requires, however a detailed knowledge of the K1--> K pi pi strong interaction decays, namely, the complex pattern of the various partial wave amplitudes into several possible quasi-two-body channels as well as their relative phases. A number of experiments have been done to extract all these information while there remain various problems in the previous studies. In this thesis, we investigate the details of these problems. As a theoretical tool, we use the 3P0 quark-pair-creation model in order to improve our understanding of strong K1 decays.Finally we try to estimate some theoretical uncertainties: in particular, the one coming from the uncertainty on the K1 mixing angle, and the effect of a possible ''off-set'' phase in strong decay S-waves. According to our estimations, the systematic errors are found to be of the order of sigma(lambda_gamma)^th<20%. On the other hand, we discuss the sensitivity of the future experiments, namely the SuperB factories and LHCb, to lambda_gamma. Naively estimating the annual signal yields, we found the statistical error of the new method to be sigma(lambda_gamma)^stat<10% which turns out to be reduced by a factor 2 with respect to using the simple angular distribution.We also discuss a comparison to the other methods of the polarization measurement using processes, such as B--> K* e^+ e^-, Bd--> K* gamma and Bs--> phi gamma, for the determination of the ratio of the Wilson coefficients C7gamma^'eff/C7gamma^eff. We show an example of the potential constraints on C7gamma^'eff/C7gamma^eff. in several scenarios of supersymmetric models.

Dans une première partie, nous mesurons l'affinité de l'interaction entre [Ru(pby)2dppz]2+ et l'ADN en utilisant la luminescence induite lors de la complexation. Nous étudions l'évolution de l'affinité lorsque la force ionique de la solution augmente. Dans une deuxième partie, nous modifions les extrémités d'un double brin d'ADN en y greffant des fluorophores. De la mesure de transfert d'énergie non-radiative entre ces fluorophores, nous étudions l'évolution de la longueur du complexe. Nous effectuons un dosage d'un double brin de 15 paires de bases d'ADN par le complexe ruthéné. Nous nous servons de la luminescence induite par l'intercalation du groupement dppz. Cependant, l'incrément de luminescence par groupement intercalé n'est pas connu, et nous ne pouvons pas le mesurer en saturant le brin d'ADN. Nous utilisons alors une technique mise au point par Nishida [Method for Measuring the Binding of Small Molecules to Proteins from Binding-Induced Alterations of Physical-Chemical Properties], dans laquelle deux titrations de deux solutions d'ADN de deux concentrations différentes sont effectuées. En utilisant le fait que, lorsque deux solutions d'ADN complexé par le composé ruthéné, possèdent la même luminescence par paire de base , le taux de complexation de ces deux solutions doit être le même, nous pouvons alors déterminer, sans hypothèse supplémentaire, le taux de complexation de l'ADN. De l'évolution de ce taux en fonction avec la concentration de ligand, nous déduisons son affinité pour l'ADN. Nous étudions maintenant le changement de longueur d'un double brin d'ADN de 15 paires de bases, modifié à ses deux extrémités par deux fluorophores : Alexa488 et Alexa568. Lorsque Alexa 488 est porté dans un état excité, il peut se désexciter en transférant de l'énergie de manière non-radiative à Alexa568, qui se désexcite alors en émettant des photons de plus faibles énergie que ceux émis par Alexa488. L'efficacité de ce transfert d'énergie peut être quantifié à partir de la mesure des intensités émises à basse et haute énergie. Elle dépend a priori de l'efficacité couplage (et en conséquence de la distance) entre les deux fluorophores. Nous effectuons des mesures de temps de vie des états excités de chacun des fluorophores. Nous avons observé que l'addition de ligand a pour conséquence une forte inhibition quenching des fluorophores. De l'analyse de l'évolution du temps de vie du fluorophore donneur d'une part et de celui du fluorophore accepteur d'autre part, nous déduisons l'évolution de l'efficacité du transfert d'énergie en fonction de la concentration de ligand. Nous confrontons les résultats obtenus par chacune de ces analyses, et en déduisons finalement, en nous servant de l'analyse de l'équilibre effectuée dans la première partie, l'évolution de la longueur de la chaîne en fonction du taux de complexation

The three dimensional Monte Carlo radiation transport model McArtim is extended to account for the simulation of the propagation of polarized radiation and the inelastic rotational Raman scattering which is the cause of the so called Ring effect. From the achieved and now sufficient precision of the calculated Ring effect new opportunities in optical absorption spectroscopy arise. In the calculation the method of importance sampling (IS) is applied. Thereby one obtains from an ensemble of Monte Carlo photon trajectories an intensity accounting for the elastic aerosol particle-, Cabannes- and the inelastic rotational Raman scattering (RRS) and simultaneously an intensity, for which Rayleigh scattering is treated as an elastic scattering process. By combining both intensities one obtains the so called filling-in (FI, which quantifies the filling-in of Fraunhofer lines) as a measure for the strength of the Ring effect with the same relative precision as the intensities. The validation of the polarized radiometric quantities and the Ring effect is made by comparison with partially published results of other radiation transport models. Furthermore the concept of discretisation of the optical domain into grid cells is extended by making grid cells arbitrarily joining into so called clusters, i.e. grid cell aggregates. Therewith the program is able to calculate derivatives of radiometrically or spectroscopically accessible quantities, namely the intensities at certain locations in the atmospheric radiation field and the light path integrals of trace gas concentrations associated thereto, i.e. the product of the DOAS (differential optical absorption spectroscopy) method, with respect to optical properties of aerosols and gases in connected spatial regions. The first and second order derivatives are validated through so called self-consistency tests. These derivatives allow the inversion of three dimensional tracegas and aerosol concentration profiles and pave the way down to 3D optical scattered light tomography. If such tomographic inversion scheme is based solely on spectral intensitites the available second order derivatives allows the consideration of the curvature in the cost function and therefore allows implementation of efficient optimisation algorithms. The influence of the instrument function on the spectra is analysed in order to mathematically assess the potential of DOAS to a sufficient degree. It turns out that the detailed knowledge of the instrument function is required for an advanced spectral analysis. Concludingly the mathematical separability of narrow band signatures of absorption and the Ring effect from the relatively broad band influence of the elastic scattering processes on the spectra is demonstrated which corresponds exactly to the DOAS principle. In that procedure the differential signal is obtained by approximately 4 orders of magnitude faster then by the separate modelling with and without narrow band structures. Thereby the fusion of the separated steps DOAS spectral analysis and subsequent radiation transport modeling becomes computationally feasible.

The radiative &amp / #969 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / 0&amp / #960 / 0&amp / #947 / , &amp / #961 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / 0&amp / #960 / 0&amp / #947 / , &amp / #969 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / +&amp / #960 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #947 / and &amp / #961 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / +&amp / #960 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #947 / decays are studied by adding the effect of vector meson mixing to the amplitude of these decays. For the above decays we consider only &amp / #961 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #969 / mixing. In addition to the &amp / #961 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #969 / mixing, we also analyse the contributions coming from different intermediate states to examine the decay mechanism of these decays in a phenomenological framework. For &amp / #969 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / 0&amp / #960 / 0&amp / #947 / decay, we consider the contributions of the &amp / #961 / -meson and &amp / #963 / -meson intermediate states and of the kaon-loop, and for the &amp / #961 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / 0&amp / #960 / 0&amp / #947 / decay we calculate the amplitude using the contributions of the &amp / #969 / -meson and &amp / #963 / -meson intermediate states and pion-loop. Moreover, the radiative &amp / #969 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / +&amp / #960 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #947 / decay is studied by considering the contributions of &amp / #963 / -meson and &amp / #961 / -meson intermediate states and the decay &amp / #961 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / +&amp / #960 / &amp / #8722 / &amp / #947 / is investigated by taking into account the contributions of bremmsstrahlung, pion-loop and &amp / #963 / - meson intermediate state amplitude. We also estimate the coupling constant g&amp / #969 / &amp / #963 / &amp / #947 / utilizing the latest experimental value of the branching ratio &amp / #969 / &amp / #8594 / &amp / #960 / 0&amp / #960 / 0&amp / #947 / .

The theory of radiative transfer is applied to the problem of multiple wave scattering in a one-dimensional multilayer. A new mathematical model of a multilayer is presented in which both the refractive index and width of each layer are randomized. The layer widths are generated by a new probability distribution which allows for strong layer width disorder. An expression for the transport mean free path of the multilayer is derived based on its single-scattering properties. It will be shown that interference between the field reflected from adjacent layer interfaces remains significant even in the presence of strong layer width disorder. It will be proven that even when the scattering is weak, the field in a random multilayer localizes at certain frequencies. The effect of increasing layer width randomization on this form of localization is quantified. The radiative transfer model of time-harmonic scattering in multilayers is extended to narrow-band pulse propagation in weakly scattering media. The tendency of pulses to broaden in this medium is discussed. A radiative transport model of the system is developed and compared to numerical solutions of the wave equation. It is observed that pulse broadening is not described by simple transfer theory. The radiative transfer model is extended by the addition of a Laplacian term in an attempt to model the effect of ensemble average pulse broadening. Numerical simulation results in support of this proposal are given, and applications for the theory suggested. Finally, the problem of acoustic wave scattering by planar screens is considered. The study was motivated by the idea that multiple scattering experiments may prove possible in a medium composed of such scatterers. Successful multiple scattering in a medium of planar scatterers will depend on the scattering cross-section at angles away from normal incidence. The scattering cross-section is calculated for a circular disc using a new technique for solving the acoustic wave equation on planar surfaces. The method is validated by comparison with available analytic solutions and the geometric theory of diffraction.

The theory of radiative transfer is applied to the problem of multiple wave scattering in a one-dimensional multilayer. A new mathematical model of a multilayer is presented in which both the refractive index and width of each layer are randomized. The layer widths are generated by a new probability distribution which allows for strong layer width disorder. An expression for the transport mean free path of the multilayer is derived based on its single-scattering properties. It will be shown that interference between the field reflected from adjacent layer interfaces remains significant even in the presence of strong layer width disorder. It will be proven that even when the scattering is weak, the field in a random multilayer localizes at certain frequencies. The effect of increasing layer width randomization on this form of localization is quantified. The radiative transfer model of time-harmonic scattering in multilayers is extended to narrow-band pulse propagation in weakly scattering media. The tendency of pulses to broaden in this medium is discussed. A radiative transport model of the system is developed and compared to numerical solutions of the wave equation. It is observed that pulse broadening is not described by simple transfer theory. The radiative transfer model is extended by the addition of a Laplacian term in an attempt to model the effect of ensemble average pulse broadening. Numerical simulation results in support of this proposal are given, and applications for the theory suggested. Finally, the problem of acoustic wave scattering by planar screens is considered. The study was motivated by the idea that multiple scattering experiments may prove possible in a medium composed of such scatterers. Successful multiple scattering in a medium of planar scatterers will depend on the scattering cross-section at angles away from normal incidence. The scattering cross-section is calculated for a circular disc using a new technique for solving the acoustic wave equation on planar surfaces. The method is validated by comparison with available analytic solutions and the geometric theory of diffraction.

The theory of radiative transfer is applied to the problem of multiple wave scattering in a one-dimensional multilayer. A new mathematical model of a multilayer is presented in which both the refractive index and width of each layer are randomized. The layer widths are generated by a new probability distribution which allows for strong layer width disorder. An expression for the transport mean free path of the multilayer is derived based on its single-scattering properties. It will be shown that interference between the field reflected from adjacent layer interfaces remains significant even in the presence of strong layer width disorder. It will be proven that even when the scattering is weak, the field in a random multilayer localizes at certain frequencies. The effect of increasing layer width randomization on this form of localization is quantified. The radiative transfer model of time-harmonic scattering in multilayers is extended to narrow-band pulse propagation in weakly scattering media. The tendency of pulses to broaden in this medium is discussed. A radiative transport model of the system is developed and compared to numerical solutions of the wave equation. It is observed that pulse broadening is not described by simple transfer theory. The radiative transfer model is extended by the addition of a Laplacian term in an attempt to model the effect of ensemble average pulse broadening. Numerical simulation results in support of this proposal are given, and applications for the theory suggested. Finally, the problem of acoustic wave scattering by planar screens is considered. The study was motivated by the idea that multiple scattering experiments may prove possible in a medium composed of such scatterers. Successful multiple scattering in a medium of planar scatterers will depend on the scattering cross-section at angles away from normal incidence. The scattering cross-section is calculated for a circular disc using a new technique for solving the acoustic wave equation on planar surfaces. The method is validated by comparison with available analytic solutions and the geometric theory of diffraction.

The theory of radiative transfer is applied to the problem of multiple wave scattering in a one-dimensional multilayer. A new mathematical model of a multilayer is presented in which both the refractive index and width of each layer are randomized. The layer widths are generated by a new probability distribution which allows for strong layer width disorder. An expression for the transport mean free path of the multilayer is derived based on its single-scattering properties. It will be shown that interference between the field reflected from adjacent layer interfaces remains significant even in the presence of strong layer width disorder. It will be proven that even when the scattering is weak, the field in a random multilayer localizes at certain frequencies. The effect of increasing layer width randomization on this form of localization is quantified. The radiative transfer model of time-harmonic scattering in multilayers is extended to narrow-band pulse propagation in weakly scattering media. The tendency of pulses to broaden in this medium is discussed. A radiative transport model of the system is developed and compared to numerical solutions of the wave equation. It is observed that pulse broadening is not described by simple transfer theory. The radiative transfer model is extended by the addition of a Laplacian term in an attempt to model the effect of ensemble average pulse broadening. Numerical simulation results in support of this proposal are given, and applications for the theory suggested. Finally, the problem of acoustic wave scattering by planar screens is considered. The study was motivated by the idea that multiple scattering experiments may prove possible in a medium composed of such scatterers. Successful multiple scattering in a medium of planar scatterers will depend on the scattering cross-section at angles away from normal incidence. The scattering cross-section is calculated for a circular disc using a new technique for solving the acoustic wave equation on planar surfaces. The method is validated by comparison with available analytic solutions and the geometric theory of diffraction.

Esta pesquisa consiste na solução do problema inverso de transferência radiativa para um meio participante (emissor, absorvedor e/ou espalhador) homogêneo unidimensional em uma camada, usando-se a combinação de rede neural artificial (RNA) com técnicas de otimização. A saída da RNA, devidamente treinada, apresenta os valores das propriedades radiativas [&#969;, &#964;0, &#961;1 e &#961;2] que são otimizadas através das seguintes técnicas: Particle Collision Algorithm (PCA), Algoritmos Genéticos (AG), Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) e Busca Tabu (BT). Os dados usados no treinamento da RNA são sintéticos, gerados através do problema direto sem a introdução de ruído. Os resultados obtidos unicamente pela RNA, apresentam um erro médio percentual menor que 1,64%, seria satisfatório, todavia para o tratamento usando-se as quatro técnicas de otimização citadas anteriormente, os resultados tornaram-se ainda melhores com erros percentuais menores que 0,04%, especialmente quando a otimização é feita por AG. / This research consists in the solution of the inverse problem of radiative transfer for a participating media (emmiting, absorbing and/or scattering) homogeneous one-dimensional in one layer, using the combination of artificial neural network (ANN), with optimization techniques. The output of the ANN, properly trained presents the values of the radiative properties [w, to, p1 e p2] that are optimized through the following techniques: Particle Collision Algorithm (PCA), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedure (GRASP) and Tabu Search (TS). The data used in the training are synthetics, generated through the direct problem without the introduction of noise. The results obtained by the (ANN) alone, presents an average percentage error minor than 1,64%, what it would be satisfying, however, for the treatment using the four techniques of optimization aforementioned, the results have become even better with percentage errors minor than 0,03%, especially when the optimization is made by the GA.