title: Light transfer at the ocean surface modeled using high resolution sea surface realizations.
abstract: The behavior of light at the air-sea interface has been investigated using ray tracing methods with numerically realized surfaces that incorporate features on scales from 3 millimeters to 200 meters. The directional reflection of light at the surface realizations was tested using Monte Carlo code. Estimated directionally reflected radiances were generally in good agreement with those from existing methods that model the slope statistics but not the shape of the sea surface. However, significant differences were found for some incident and exitant directions. The model was used to quantitatively estimate the pixel-to-pixel variation in ocean color images caused by spatial variation in the sea surface shape.
authors: College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK. sk284@exeter.ac.uk
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Kay
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Hedley
authors: Samantha
authors: S
authors: Lavender
authors: Alex
authors: A
authors: Nimmo-Smith
mesh_terms: D003198:Computer Simulation; D004735:Energy Transfer; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000379:methods*; D008027:Light; D008956:Models, Chemical; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D010783:Photometry / Q000379:methods*; D012031:Refractometry / Q000379:methods*; D012542:Scattering, Radiation; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D014867:Water