There are several other web sites relevant to optical oceanography:

Topics in Particle and Dispersion Science is a similar web-based resource covering many topics of importance to optical oceanographers.

The International Ocean-Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) website has a wealth of useful information and reports relating to remote sensing.

There is an Ocean Optics Group on Yahoo!, which is open to all.

There are several freely available textbooks:

Scattering, Absorption, and Emission of Light by Small Particles by Mishchenko et al. (2002)

Light and Water by Mobley (1994). The download is a 22Mbyte zip file.

Hydrologic Optics by Preisendorfer (1976)

The classic Visibility Laboratory technical reports of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography can be accessed online by report number or by author. The reports are also available on DVD (1.7 Gbytes) from Curtis Mobley or Emmanuel Boss.

Some journals in the field are freely available on line:

• Optics Express

• Biogeosciences

Other journals have some articles available:

• Limnology and Oceanography

• Limnology and Oceanography Methods

Also try finding articles using tools such as Google Scholar or look directly on the web sites of practitioners.

Some researchers in Environmental Optics have reprints of their papers on-line:

• Antoine, Babin, Bricaud, Chamie, Claustre, Doxaran, Morel and other from the Laboratoire D'Oceanography de Villefranche

• E. Boss

• S. Maritorena

• M. Mishchenko

• N. Nelson

• D. Siegel

• D. Stramski

• K. Voss

Professors sometimes post material from related courses:

Application of Remote and In-situ Ocean Optical Measurements to Ocean Biogeochemistry (organized by E. Boss and sponsored by NASA)

Ocean Optics: Observing Ocean Biogeochemistry with Optics (organized by E. Boss and sponsored by NASA, ONR, and NSF)

Ocean Optics: Radiative Transfer and Inversions of Ocean Color Remote Sensing (organized by E. Boss and sponsored by ONR and NASA).

Course notes and programs for Monte Carlo modeling by John T. O. Kirk.

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