Remote sensing reflectance measured in the South China Sea and Sulu Sea during RV Sonne cruise SO218 from 18 to 27 November 2011

• Main Authors: Bracher, Astrid, Cheah, Wee
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2022
• Subjects: Apparent optical properties; DATE/TIME; DEPTH; water; Event label; Identification; Latitude of event; Longitude of event; RAMSES; RAMSES hyperspectral radiometer; remote sensing reflectance; Remote sensing reflectance at 350 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 351 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 352 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 353 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 354 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 355 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 356 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 357 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 358 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 359 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 360 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 361 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 362 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 363 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 364 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 365 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 366 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 367 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 368 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 369 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 370 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 371 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 372 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 373 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 374 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 375 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 376 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 377 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 378 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 379 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 380 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 381 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 382 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 383 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 384 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 385 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 386 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 387 nm; Remote sensing reflectance at 388 nm; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.946368; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.946368

We present a data set on remote sensing reflectance (RRS) at 1nm resolution from 350 to 800nm obtained from measurements in the coastal and open ocean areas of the South China Sea and Sulu Sea from 18 to 27 November 2011. For the measurements we used radiometric hyperspectral (3.3 nm sampling, 10 nm FWHM) underwater profile measurements down to the 0.1 % light level using RAMSES (TriOS GmbH, Germany) sensors which measured depth resolved the upwelling radiance and downwelling irradiance, both corrected by incident sunlight fluctuations with a second RAMSES sensor measuring the above water downwelling irradiance. The later sensor data were also used to finally calculate RRS. We followed the protocol by Mueller et al. (2003) further modified by Matsuoka et al. (2007) and Stramski et al. (2008), as described for our instrument set-up in Taylor et al. (2011). Our method is further described and assessed for its uncertainty in Tilstone et al. (2020). The campaign is described in detail in Cheah et al. (2013) and was also optical constituents hyperspectral absorption data (Bracher et al. 2021a, b) and phytoplankton pigments (Bracher 2014) were measured.