Ocean Optics - Carder, Kendall L.

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Résumé :
Since the publication of Jerlov's classic volume on optical oceanography in 1968, the ability to predict or model the submarine light field, given measurements of the inherent optical properties of the ocean, has improved to the point that model fields are very close to measured fields. In the last three decades, remote sensing capabilities have fostered powerful models that can be inverted to estimate the inherent optical properties closely related to substances important for understanding global biological productivity, environmental quality, and most nearshore geophysical processes. This volume presents an eclectic blend of information on the theories, experiments, and instrumentation that now characterize the ways in which optical oceanography is studied. Through the course of this interdisciplinary work, the reader is led from the physical concepts of radiative transfer to the experimental techniques used in the lab and at sea, to process-oriented discussions of the biochemical mechanisms responsible for oceanic optical variability. The text will be of interest to researchers and students in physical and biological oceanography, biology, geophysics, limnology, atmospheric optics, and remote sensing of ocean and global climate change....

Sommaire:

• 1: Howard R. Gordon: Modelling and simulating radiative transfer in the ocean


• 2: John T.O. Kirk: The relationship between the inherent and the apparent optical properties of surface waters and its dependence on the shape of the volume scattering function


• 3: J. Ronald V. Zaneveld: Optical closure: from theory to measurement


• 4: Motoaki Kishino: Interrelationships between light and phytoplankton in the sea


• 5: Andr? Morel: Optics from the single cell to the mesoscale


• 6: Mary Jane Perry: Measurements of phytoplankton absorption other than per unit of chlorophyll a


• 7: Niels K. Hojerslev: A history of early optical oceanographic instrument design in Scandinavia


• 8: Charles S. Yentsch: Why is the measurement of fluorescence important to the study of biological oceanography?


• 9: Dale A. Kiefer: Light absorption, fluorescence, and photosynthesis: Skeletonema costatum and field measurements


• 10: John Marra: Capabilities and merits of long-term bio-optical moorings


• 11: George W. Kattawar: Polarization of light in the ocean


• 12: Raymond C. Smith and Bruce R. Marshall: Raman scattering and optical properties of pure water


• 13: Kendall L. Carder and David K. Costello: Optical effects of large particles


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