Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice
Detailed characterization of the spatially and temporally varying inherent optical properties (IOPs) of sea ice is necessary to better predict energy and mass balances, as well as ice-associated primary production. Here we present the development of an active optical probe to measure IOPs of a small...
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ftcopernicus:oai:publications.copernicus.org:tcd93775 2023-05-15T15:18:30+02:00 Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice Perron, Christophe Katlein, Christian Lambert-Girard, Simon Leymarie, Edouard Guinard, Louis-Philippe Marquet, Pierre Babin, Marcel 2021-05-18 application/pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-104 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-104/ eng eng doi:10.5194/tc-2021-104 https://tc.copernicus.org/preprints/tc-2021-104/ eISSN: 1994-0424 Text 2021 ftcopernicus https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2021-104 2021-05-24T16:22:15Z Detailed characterization of the spatially and temporally varying inherent optical properties (IOPs) of sea ice is necessary to better predict energy and mass balances, as well as ice-associated primary production. Here we present the development of an active optical probe to measure IOPs of a small volume of sea ice (dm 3 ) in situ and non-destructively. The probe is derived from the diffuse reflectance method used to measure the IOPs of human tissues. The instrument emits light into the ice by the use of optical fibre. Backscattered light is measured at multiple distances away from the source using several receiving fibres. Comparison to a Monte Carlo simulated lookup table allows to retrieve the absorption coefficient, the reduced scattering coefficient and a phase function similarity parameter γ, introduced by Bevilacqua and Depeursinge (1999), depending on the two first moments of the Legendre polynomials, allowing to analyze the backscattered light not satisfying the diffusion regime. Monte Carlo simulations showed that the depth cumulating 95% of the signal is between 40±2 mm and 270±20 mm depending on the source-detector distance and on the ice scattering properties. The magnitude of the instrument validation error on the reduced scattering coefficient ranged from 0.07% for the most scattering medium to 35% for the less scattering medium over the two orders of magnitude we validated. Vertical profiles of the reduced scattering coefficient were obtained with decimeter resolution on first-year Arctic interior sea ice on Baffin Island in early spring 2019. We measured values of up to 7.1 m −1 for the uppermost layer of interior ice and down to 0.15±0.05 m −1 for the bottommost layer. These values are in the range of polar interior sea ice measurements published by other authors. The inversion of the reduced scattering coefficient at this scale was strongly dependent of γ, highlighting the need to define the higher moments of the phase function. This novel developed probe provides a fast and reliable means for measurement of scattering into sea ice. Text Arctic Baffin Island Baffin Sea ice Copernicus Publications: E-Journals Arctic Baffin Island Bevilacqua ENVELOPE(162.479,162.479,-77.232,-77.232) |
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Detailed characterization of the spatially and temporally varying inherent optical properties (IOPs) of sea ice is necessary to better predict energy and mass balances, as well as ice-associated primary production. Here we present the development of an active optical probe to measure IOPs of a small volume of sea ice (dm 3 ) in situ and non-destructively. The probe is derived from the diffuse reflectance method used to measure the IOPs of human tissues. The instrument emits light into the ice by the use of optical fibre. Backscattered light is measured at multiple distances away from the source using several receiving fibres. Comparison to a Monte Carlo simulated lookup table allows to retrieve the absorption coefficient, the reduced scattering coefficient and a phase function similarity parameter γ, introduced by Bevilacqua and Depeursinge (1999), depending on the two first moments of the Legendre polynomials, allowing to analyze the backscattered light not satisfying the diffusion regime. Monte Carlo simulations showed that the depth cumulating 95% of the signal is between 40±2 mm and 270±20 mm depending on the source-detector distance and on the ice scattering properties. The magnitude of the instrument validation error on the reduced scattering coefficient ranged from 0.07% for the most scattering medium to 35% for the less scattering medium over the two orders of magnitude we validated. Vertical profiles of the reduced scattering coefficient were obtained with decimeter resolution on first-year Arctic interior sea ice on Baffin Island in early spring 2019. We measured values of up to 7.1 m −1 for the uppermost layer of interior ice and down to 0.15±0.05 m −1 for the bottommost layer. These values are in the range of polar interior sea ice measurements published by other authors. The inversion of the reduced scattering coefficient at this scale was strongly dependent of γ, highlighting the need to define the higher moments of the phase function. This novel developed probe provides a fast and reliable means for measurement of scattering into sea ice. |
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Perron, Christophe Katlein, Christian Lambert-Girard, Simon Leymarie, Edouard Guinard, Louis-Philippe Marquet, Pierre Babin, Marcel Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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Perron, Christophe Katlein, Christian Lambert-Girard, Simon Leymarie, Edouard Guinard, Louis-Philippe Marquet, Pierre Babin, Marcel |
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Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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Development of a Diffuse Reflectance Probe for In Situ Measurement of Inherent Optical Properties in Sea Ice |
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development of a diffuse reflectance probe for in situ measurement of inherent optical properties in sea ice |
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