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    • Aerosol Optical Properties in Bermuda (NSF)
    • Bi Directional Reflectance Distribution (BRDF) of natural surfaces (ONR)
    • Sea Suface Reflectance and Whitecaps (NASA)
    • Bi-directional reflectance of the Ocean (NASA)
    • Polarized Radiance distribution in the Ocean (ONR and NASA)
    • Polarized Radiance distribution in the Atmosphere (ONR and NASA)
    • Santa Barbara Channel, sky data, 9/08
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    September 9-10, 2008


    Weather:  Overcast with thick marine layer in the morning clearing by 14:00 local.  No data collected during morning.  Afternoon was clear with only a thin marine haze on horizon.  Full sun with shadows visible.  Winds increasing all afternoon to almost 20 knots by sunset.

    sky conditions

    Instrumentation used:  Sky camera system was run from 23:00 GMT – 02:15 GMT (September 10, 2008).  Images were taken in cycles that took 1 image with each appropriate spectral filter and polarizer combination.  A typical cycle took about 6 minutes to complete and cycles were started every 15 minutes. Microtops sunphotometers were also taken every 15 minutes corresponding to the previous 2 instruments’ sampling schedule.  The microtops were taken from 16:00 GMT – 01:45 GMT (September 10, 2008).

    sky conditions

    Filenames: 090908-225906-442 to 091008-014502-855
    -total of 396 images taken
    -resulting in 96 pdf files generated (A pdf file contains the result of one series of 4 images taken with 1 spectral filter and 3 different polarizers).

    Sky File Summary (Excel file)
    Image movie between 2259 and 0000, movies exclude "bad" catagory
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XalXnxjrfKk
    Text files for above movie
    Full data images for above movie

    Image movie between 0000 and 0100, movies exclude "bad" catagory
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9qpjoD0LE
    Text files for above movie
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    Image movie between 0100 and end, movies exclude "bad" catagory
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKZVM0QrcBM
    Text files for above movie
    Full data images for above movie
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