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Measurements of Waves in a Wind-wave Tank Under Steady and Time-varying Wind Forcing
Published on: February 13, 2018
[Multiple scattering of visible and infrared light by sea fog over wind driving rough sea surface]
Xian-Ming Sun1, Hai-Hua Wang, Cheng-Xin Lei
1School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China. xianming_sun@yahoo.com.cn
Abstract:
The present paper is concerned with computing the multiple scattering characteristics of a sea fog-sea surface couple system within this context. The single scattering characteristics of sea fog were studied by Mie theory, and the multiple scattering of sunlight by single sea fog layer was studied by radiative transfer theory. The reflection function of a statistically rough ocean surface was obtained using the standard Kirchhoff formulation, with shadowing effects taken into account. The reflection properties of the combined sea fog and ocean surface were obtained employing the adding method, and the results indicated that the reflected light intensity of sea fog increased with the sea background.
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