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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-183-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-15-183-2021
Research article
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11 Jan 2021
Research article |  | 11 Jan 2021

New insights into radiative transfer within sea ice derived from autonomous optical propagation measurements

Christian Katlein, Lovro Valcic, Simon Lambert-Girard, and Mario Hoppmann

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To improve autonomous investigations of sea ice optical properties, we designed a chain of multispectral light sensors, providing autonomous in-ice light measurements. Here we describe the system and the data acquired from a first prototype deployment. We show that sideward-looking planar irradiance sensors basically measure scalar irradiance and demonstrate the use of this sensor chain to derive light transmittance and inherent optical properties of sea ice.