Optical Turbulence in the Ocean

Abstract

The established view of diver visibility has been mainly focused on the effects of particles or turbidity of the water. The influence of optical turbulence due to variations of ocean temperature and salinity is shown to contribute to the degradation, through model and field validation. Lab setup of a simulated environment and future directions are also discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 2015
Accession Number
AD1013149

Entities

People

  • Weilin W. Hou

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Atmospheric Motion
  • Department Of Defense
  • Environment
  • Fiber Optics
  • Forward Scattering
  • High Resolution
  • Intensity
  • Large Eddy Simulation
  • Measurement
  • Optics
  • Refractive Index
  • Scattering
  • Simulations
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Transfer Functions
  • Turbulence

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science
  • Physics

Readers

  • Atmospheric Remote Sensing.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers