Sun Glint and White Foam

CNES / RadiativeTransferCode-OSOAA

Ocean Successive Orders with Atmosphere - Advanced (OSOAA) : Accurate computation of the radiative tranfer into the Ocean-Atmosphere system including polarisation, coupling terms, and the agitated surface.

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Sun Glint and White Foam #18

Closed amsuhail closed 11 months ago

amsuhail commented 11 months ago

Hi,

Does OSOAA account for the effects of sun glint and white foam in the radiative transfer or it ignores them?

Regards, Suhail

blafranc commented 11 months ago

Hello,

Yes, the OSOAA model simulates the sun glint. You can define the wind speed with the parameter -SEA.Wind and sea/surface refraction index with -SEA.Ind. The foam can be introduced by defining its reflectance contribution with the parameter -SEA.SurfAlb.

Please, have a look in the User Guide:

Foam is mentioned in section §3.2.2, page 23.
The sea surface modeling is fully described in section §4.4, page 100 onwards.

Best regards