Volume scattering functions (VSFs) and other optical seawater parameters were measured during a cruise in the Southern Baltic. Phase functions (PFs) calculated from VSFs were compared with Fournier-Forand phase functions parameterized with backscattering ratios. Due to significant divergences between experimental and modeled data a new method of Fournier-Forand phase function parameterization is proposed.

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Appl. Opt.

• C. D. Mobley, L. K. Sundman, and E. Boss, "Phase Function Effects on Oceanic Light Fields," Appl. Opt. 41,1035-1050 (2002), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-41-6-1035. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• M. Chami, D. McKee, E. Leymarie, and G. Khomenko, "Influence of the angular shape of the volume-scattering function and multiple scattering on remote sensing reflectance," Appl. Opt. 45, 9210-9220 (2006), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-45-36-9210. [CrossRef] [PubMed]
• D. McKee and A. Cunningham, "Evidence for wavelength dependence of the scattering phase function and its implication for modeling radiance transfer in shelf seas," Appl. Opt. 44, 126-135 (2005), http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=ao-44-1-126 [PubMed]
• A. H. Hakim and N. J. McCormick, "Ocean Optics Estimation for Absorption, Backscattering, and Phase Function Parameters," Appl. Opt. 42, 931-938 (2003). [CrossRef] [PubMed]

Astrophys. J.

• L. C. Henyey and J. L. Greenstein, "Diffuse radiation in the galaxy," Astrophys. J. 93, 70-83 (1941). [CrossRef]

Gdynia Maritime University Publishing

• E. B. Shybanov, O. V. Martynov, T. Król, W. Freda, R. Hapter, "Scattering functions of Southern Baltic sea waters", in Physicochemical Problems of Natural Waters Ecology, T. Król, ed., (Gdynia Maritime University Publishing, 2007), Vol.  5, pp. 90-95.Q2

J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol.

• M. E. Lee and M. R. Lewis, "A new method for the measurement of the optical volume scattering function in the upper ocean," J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol. 20, 563-571 (2003).Q1 [CrossRef]

Other

• G. Fournier and M. Jonasz, "Computer-based underwater imaging analysis," in Airborne and In-water Underwater Imaging, G. Gilbert, ed., Proc. SPIE 3761, 62-77 (1999). [CrossRef]
• V. I. Haltrin, "Two-term Henyey-Greenstein light scattering phase function for seawater," in IGARSS ’99: Proceedings of the International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 1999), pp. 1423-1425.
• G. Fournier and J. L. Forand, "Analytic phase function for ocean water," Proc. SPIE 2258, 194-201 (1994). [CrossRef]
• T. J. Petzold, "Volume scattering functions for selected ocean waters," SIO Ref. 72-78, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, U. California, San Diego (1972).
• C. D. Mobley, Light and Water: Radiative Transfer in Natural Waters (Academic, San Diego, Calif., 1994).

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