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Appl Opt. 2006 May 20;45(15):3605-19. doi: 10.1364/ao.45.003605.

Spectral variation of the volume scattering function measured over the full range of scattering angles in a coastal environment.

Applied optics

Malik Chami, Eugeny B Shybanov, Gueorgui A Khomenko, Michael E-G Lee, Oleg V Martynov, Gennady K Korotaev

Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire Océanographie de Villefranche, Unité Mixte de Recherche Associée au Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Villefranche sur Mer, France. [email protected]

PMID: 16708107 DOI: 10.1364/ao.45.003605

Abstract

The spectral volume scattering function (VSF) was measured in a coastal environment from 0.6 degrees to 177.3 degrees by use of a recently developed device. The spectral variations of the particulate VSF and phase function (i.e., ratio of the VSF to the scattering coefficient) were examined as a function of the scattering angle. The angular dependency of both VSF and phase- function spectra was highly sensitive to the absorption and to the size distribution of the particles. As a result, the use of spectrally neutral phase functions in radiative-transfer modeling is questioned.

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