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Ocean Color Inferred from Radiometers on Low-Flying Aircraft
James H Churnside1, James J Wilson2
1NOAA ESRL CSD3, 325 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80305, USA. james.j.wilson@noaa.gov.
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.
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