以往大部分海洋光学和海色研究都是以海洋光学有效成分及固有光学特性垂直均一分布的假设为基础进行的, 然而海洋观测表明海水成分的垂直不均一性大量存在。 文章通过Hydrolight辐射传输模拟研究了叶绿素浓度垂直不均一分布对海水表观光学特性的影响。 叶绿素浓度垂直不均一分布由高斯模型来近似模拟, 选择成熟的一类水体生物光学模型, 利用Hydrolight辐射传输代码模拟表观光学特性, 将垂直不均一廓线情况下模拟的表观光学特性值与具有本底值的均一廓线情况所模拟的相应值进行了比较。 结果表明, 水表面以下的叶绿素浓度最大值增加了蓝光波段的遥感反射率, 减小了绿光波段的遥感反射率, 而且改变了水体中辐射的方向分布, 在叶绿素浓度最大值处, 下行辐射漫衰减系数和平均余弦廓线分别出现峰值和谷值。

Previous researches on ocean optics and ocean color were based on the assumption that inherent optical properties and optically significant constituents of seawater are homogeneous in the vertical direction. However, oceanographic observations show that the assumption is not always exact and the vertical inhomogeneity of them exists in the upper ocean. The purpose of the present research is to study the effect of nonuniform vertical profiles of chlorophyll concentration on apparent optical properties with radiative transfer model Hydrolight. The vertical profiles of chlorophyll concentration were approximated according to a Gaussian function (Lewis et al, 1983). The apparent optical properties of seawater with nonuniform chlorophyll concentration profiles were simulated with Hydrolight radiative transfer model and case-1 bio-optical model, and then compared with those for homogenous ocean whose chlorophyll concentration was identical to the background chlorophyll concentration of inhomogenous cases. The results reveal that the subsurface maximal chlorophyll concentration increases the remote sensing reflectance at the blue wavelength and decreases it at the green wavelength, nonuniform vertical profiles of chlorophyll concentration change the diffuse attenuation coefficient profiles and the angular structure of the light field in the seawater, and the diffuse attenuation coefficients maximum and average cosines minimum appear at the depth of the maximal chlorophyll concentration.