Inversion of multi-angular polarimetric measurements over coastal waters from the ACEPOL campaign: an application to improve atmospheric correction for hyperspectral ocean color retrievals

Meng Gao1, Pengwang Zhai2, Bryan A Franz1, Kirk D Knobelspiesse1, Amir Ibrahim1, Brian Cairns3, Guangliang Fu4, Otto P Hasekamp4, Yongxiang Hu5 and Jeremy Werdell1, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, (4)SRON, Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, Netherlands, (5)NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States