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Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3711-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-3711-2023
© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 15, issue 8
Data description paper
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18 Aug 2023
Data description paper |  | 18 Aug 2023

A synthetic optical database generated by radiative transfer simulations in support of studies in ocean optics and optical remote sensing of the global ocean

Hubert Loisel, Daniel Schaffer Ferreira Jorge, Rick A. Reynolds, and Dariusz Stramski

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Studies of light fields in aquatic environments require data from radiative transfer simulations that are free of measurement errors. In contrast to previously published synthetic optical databases, the present database was created by simulations covering a broad range of seawater optical properties that exhibit probability distributions consistent with a global ocean dominated by open-ocean pelagic environments. This database is intended to support ocean color science and applications.
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