Optical depth of the aerosol and amount of suspended matter of the ocean water from MOS-B data

Kurzfassung

A quasi-linear algorithm (QLA) for the retrieval of the optical depths of fine and coarse aerosol in the ocean atmosphere from NIR data of the sensor MERIS has been developed. Since in case II water the influence of the suspended matter on the water leaving reflectance cannot be neglected an estimation of its amount is involved (Piesik, Witt /1/). One step of the test of the algorithm was to apply it on MOS-B data. This had required some modifications. The results are shown in comparison to those of the PCI algorithm (Krawczyk et al. /2/, /3/).