Focusing of sunlight by sea surface waves: new results from the Black Sea*
Focusing of sunlight by sea surface waves: new results from the Black Sea*
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海面波浪聚焦阳光:黑海的新结果*
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Under clear skies, strong fluctuations in the downwelling irradiance E j prevail in shallow water as a result of the focusing and defocusing of sunlight by surface waves. Such temporal fluctuations were measured in the Black Sea, usually at a depth of 1 m, from a fixed platform located 600 m off the coastline. Thresholding analysis was applied to 109 time-series records of Ed(525 nm), each of which lasted 10 min. The frequency of occurrence of intense foci flashes (intensity exceeding the timeaveraged irradiance Ed by > 50 %) decreased exponentially with increasing flash intensity. The frequency and intensity of flashes, hence the slope of the exponential relationship, both varied with wind-wave conditions and atmospheric illumination. The best conditions for wave focusing were characterised by light winds o f 2 to 5 m s-1 , solar elevation > 40°, and diffuseness of surface irradiance < 40%. Then, at a depth of 1 m, flashes > 1.5 Ed occurred at rates as high as 6 Hz. The most intense flashes exceeded Ed 5-fold at rates of 10~3 Hz. These results, consistent * This paper was presented at SPIE’s International Symposium on Optical Applied Sci ence and Engineering at the * Optics of the Air-Sea Interface ’ Conference, San Diego, 1992 and a similar text is printed in the Proceedings SPIE, vol. 1749, pp. 65-72. This study was supported by the Polish National Research Committee, within the framework of the Marine Optics Programme of the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Marine Hydrophysical Institute of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Sevastopol. OCEANOLOGIA, No. 34 pp. 13-25, 1993. PL ISSN 0078-3234 Underwater flashes Marine optics with our previous observations, substantially improve the database on still poorlydocumented wave focusing effects.