Bright and dark ocean whitecaps observed in the infrared

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Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005georl..3211604m&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 32, Issue 11, CiteID L11604

Physics

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Oceanography: Physical: Surface Waves And Tides (1222), Oceanography: Physical: Air/Sea Interactions (0312, 3339), Oceanography: General: Remote Sensing And Electromagnetic Processes (0689, 2487, 3285, 4455, 6934)

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Airborne infrared imagery of breaking ocean waves shows that whitecaps on actively breaking wave crests appear relatively bright while residual whitecaps appear dark compared to the ambient water surface. These differences in relative brightness, which appear to arise from changes in both emissivity and physical temperature, provide a means to investigate the evolution of a breaking wave and may be of some relevance to infrared and microwave remote sensing.

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