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The aim of this article is the determination of an ‘effective reflectance of whitecaps’ which allows the use of the W(U) values from the literature to describe the optical influence of whitecaps in the solar spectral range.
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Koepke, P. (1986). Oceanic Whitecaps: Their Effective Reflectance. In: Monahan, E.C., Niocaill, G.M. (eds) Oceanic Whitecaps. Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4668-2_36
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