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By cajime Date 2011-07-03 20:23
Hello everyone,

I used the PAR from Aqua MODIS and SeaWiFS, I wonder if anyone knows and can tell me from where to obtain the reflectance of Par? (from Edo, or from where?)
I really need this information

Thanks in advance.
Mariana Callejas
By @bryan Date 2011-07-05 15:53
Mariana,

PAR is Ed[0+] integrated over 400-700nm.  I don't think you can convert PAR to a reflectance.  You would have to do the spectral integration of Eu[0+]/Ed[0+] as a reflectance.  I think that would effectively be spectrally integrated surface albedo.  There is no predefined algorithm in SeaDAS to do this.  I could imagine some methods to estimate this for clear-sky conditions. What is the purpose?

-- bryan
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