辐射偏振校正对具有相对较大偏振响应的海洋水色卫星遥感器(如Aqua MODIS)是十分必要的,可在一定程度上提高海洋水色信息提取的精度.目前, MODIS已经实现了业务化的辐射偏振校正,但其算法中忽略了气溶胶散射对大气顶辐射偏振分量的影响.利用海洋-大气耦合矢量辐射传输模型PCOART,分别模拟获得纯瑞利大气(无气溶胶)和气溶胶光学厚度为0.2大气时的大气顶辐射偏振分量.结果表明,除太阳耀斑区外,气溶胶散射对蓝光波段(443 nm)大气顶线偏振辐亮度的贡献很小,可以忽略不计,而对近红外波段(865 nm)大气顶线偏振辐亮度的贡献显著.此外,将PCOART数值模拟的大气顶瑞利散射辐射线偏振反射率与POLDER实际观测的大气顶线偏振反射率进行了比较,结果同样说明了气溶胶散射对蓝光波段(443 nm)大气顶线偏振反射率的贡献很小,而对近红外波段(865 nm).大气顶线偏振反射率的贡献显著.最后,在现有MODIS辐射偏振校正算法基础上,提出了考虑气溶胶散射的海洋水色卫星遥感辐射偏振校正算法,并利用POLDER实测的大气顶线偏振反射率对算法进行了检验,结果表明,无论是在443 nm波段,还是在865 nm波段,均比MODIS辐射偏振校正算法估算大气顶辐射偏振分量更接近POLDER实测结果.

The effect of the polarization response is remarkabe for some of the ocean color remote sensors with high polarization sensitivity, such as Aqua MODIS. The ocean color polarizaton correction algorithm of MODIS have been operation already. However, the current implementation of the MODIS polarization correction algorithm ignored the polarization component produced by aerosol scattering. In order to assess the effect of the aerosol scattering, the coupled ocean-atmospheric vector radiance transfer model PCOART was used to simulate the top-of-atmosphere (TOA) linear polarization radiance at two case, the pure Rayleight at,ps[jere wotjpit aerosol, and the aerosol optical thickness of 0.2.