Polarized light field under dynamic ocean surfaces: Numerical modeling compared with measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  You, Yu ^a   Kattawar, George W ^a   Voss, Kenneth J ^b   Bhandari, Purushottam ^b   Wei, Jianwei ^c   Lewis, Marlon ^c,d   Zappa, Christopher J ^e   Schultz, Howard ^f  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Biology   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Satlantic Inc   (Canada)

^e Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^f Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MEASUREMENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL METHODS; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; SEAWATER; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WAVES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AIR-SEA INTERFACE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DYNAMIC FEATURES; DYNAMIC SURFACE; FIELD MEASUREMENT; HYBRID MODEL; LIGHT FIELDS; MATRIX; MODEL SIMULATION; MONTE CARLO; NUMERICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODELS; OCEAN SURFACE WAVES; OCEAN SURFACES; OPERATOR METHOD; POLARIZATION FIELD; POLARIZED RADIANCES; PROPERTY MEASUREMENT; REAL WORLD SITUATIONS; WATER OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

DYNAMIC MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT EFFECT; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTICAL PROPERTY; POLARIZATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 80055008702     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007278     Document Type: Article

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