Abstract
The refractive index of freezing brine is important in order to, for example,
estimate oceanic scattering as sea ice develops. Previously, no simple continuous
expression was available for estimating the refractive index of brine at subzero
temperatures. I show that extrapolation of the empirical formula for the refractive
index of seawater by Quan and Fry [Appl. Opt. 34, 3477
(1995)] provides a good fit to
the refractive index of freezing brine for temperatures above and salinities below .
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