title: Ocean Color Inferred from Radiometers on Low-Flying Aircraft.
abstract: The color of sunlight reflected from the ocean to orbiting visible radiometers hasprovided a great deal of information about the global ocean, after suitable corrections aremade for atmospheric effects. Similar ocean-color measurements can be made from a lowflyingaircraft to get higher spatial resolution and to obtain measurements under clouds.A different set of corrections is required in this case, and we describe algorithms to correctfor clouds and sea-surface effects. An example is presented and errors in the correctionsdiscussed.
authors.affiliation: NOAA ESRL CSD3, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA. james.j.wilson@noaa.gov.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Churnside
authors.affiliation: NOAA ESRL CSD3, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA. james.h.churnside@noaa.gov.
authors.forename: James J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Wilson
keywords: atmospheric correction; ocean color; ocean optics; remote sensing