Bottom Reflectance Contamination of the Downwelling Light Stream

摘要

A model is constructed to quantify the 'contamination' Of the downwelling lightstream by bottom reflected light. The model represents an inversion of the Single Scatter Irradiance (SSI) modal Philpot, 1987. The inverted model form treats the bottom sediments as the source of light. A composite field data set is used with the model to give a first-cut estimate of the amount of bottom reflected light backscattered into the downwelling light field.