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Great Barrier Reef, Australia

image aquired February 17th 2016
temperatures and rains are highest in mid-summer in Queensland
work done in 2020

**The data**
TCC Lizard Island is shown inside green ROI	Three areas exhibit virtually no haze: suitable to estimate deep water reflectance cloud shadows might be used as well for that purpose
Glint regressions, based on SWIR band 7, clouds are excluded Overcast skies allways yield strong R2 Gentle glint on swell Conditions are excellent for deglinting, based on SWIR band over the range 4-25 Deglinting would also remove atmospheric adjacency effect, if any view the glint sampling area	TCC deglinted, TOA
Dramatic enhancement, TCC raw There is no hint of swirling turbidity	Same dramatic enhancement, TCC deglinted
UltraBlue smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement Lwublue : we estimated Lwublue =0.7% inside the GBR lagoon it appears to be much stronger over the open ocean waters; there has to be a reason? location of profile_Blue is shown (see below)	Blue smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement Lwblue : we estimated Lwblue =1.0% inside the GBR lagoon it appears to be much stronger over the open ocean waters; there has to be a reason
Green smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement location of ROI for glint regression is shown	Pan smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement
Red smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement please notice slightly more turbid in NorthWest area	NIR smoothed and deglinted, BOA logarithmic enhancement please notice adjacency effect along the waterline reefs are all covered by water: no breaking waves

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