Modelling water-leaving radiance

Author

Fearns, P.R.C.S. ; Dekker, A.G. ; Lynch, M.J.

Author_Institution

Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia

Volume

6

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2701

Abstract

The relationships between inherent optical properties of ocean waters and the subsurface diffuse reflectance (R^-) have been explored by a number of workers over the years. It is well accepted that R^- is related to the backscattering to absorption ratio b_b/a (or sometimes b_b/(a+b_b)) through R=fb_b/a. The factor f has been described by a number of people, with various relationships being suggested for predicting its value. Until the development of "fast" oceanic radiative transfer models such as HYDROLIGHT, most workers have employed Monte Carlo techniques. This work presents results based on Monte Carlo investigations as well as comparisons with HYDROLIGHT results

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods; oceanography; radiative transfer; HYDROLIGHT; Monte Carlo techniques; absorption ratio; backscattering; inherent optical properties; ocean waters; oceanic radiative transfer models; subsurface diffuse reflectance; water-leaving radiance; Absorption; Australia; Backscatter; Monte Carlo methods; Oceans; Optical scattering; Predictive models; Reflectivity; Sun; Water;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2001. IGARSS '01. IEEE 2001 International

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7031-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2001.978135

Filename

978135