Uncertainties in radiative transfer computations: consequences on the ocean color products

Eric Dilligeard; Francis Zagolski; Juergen Fischer; Richard P. Santer

doi:10.1117/12.467279

8 May 2003 Uncertainties in radiative transfer computations: consequences on the ocean color products

Eric Dilligeard, Francis Zagolski, Juergen Fischer, Richard P. Santer

Proceedings Volume 4892, Ocean Remote Sensing and Applications; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467279
Event: Third International Asia-Pacific Environmental Remote Sensing Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Ocean, Environment, and Space, 2002, Hangzhou, China

Abstract

Operational MERIS (MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) level-2 processing uses auxiliary data generated by two radiative transfer tools. These two codes simulate upwelling radiances within a coupled 'Atmosphere-Ocean' system, using different approaches based on the matrix-operator method (MOMO) and the successive orders (SO) technique. Intervalidation of these two radiative transfer codes was performed in order to implement them in the MERIS level-2 processing. MOMO and SO simulations were then conducted on a set of representative test cases. Results stressed both for all test cases good agreements were observed. The scattering processes are retrieved within a few tenths of a percent. Nevertheless, some substantial discrepancies occurred if the polarization is not taken into account mainly in the Rayleigh scattering computations. A preliminary study indicates that the impact of the code inaccuracy in the water leaving radiances retrieval (a level-2 MERIS product) is large, up to 50% in relative difference. Applying the OC2 algorithm, the effect on the retrieval chlorophyll concentration is less than 10%.

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Eric Dilligeard, Francis Zagolski, Juergen Fischer, and Richard P. Santer "Uncertainties in radiative transfer computations: consequences on the ocean color products", Proc. SPIE 4892, Ocean Remote Sensing and Applications, (8 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.467279

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