The Computation of the Polarization Characteristics of the Scattered Solar Radiation in the Ocean. Budak V.P., Korkin S.V.

XVIII Ocean Optics Conference, 2006

ABSTRACT

We offer the generalization of the vectorial small angle modification of the spherical harmonics method (VMSH) for an arbitrary angle and polarization state of irradiance of a slab. Non diagonal elements of an aerosol scattering matrix were taken into account. The smooth addition part for the VMSH was given. Thus we obtained a complete and accelerated solution of the vectorial radiative transfer equa-tion. The suggested method was compared with Monte Carlo simulation, the single scattering approxi-mation and some scalar methods for the total intensity for different media including those ones with strongly anisotropy scattering typical of the ocean, that the main application field of the described method.