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Fig. 2. Simulated reflectances at the TOA for a wind speed of 2 m/s (upper panel) and
8 m/s (lower panel) using both, Cox and Munk and the new wind-wave formulation.
Wind-wave calculations are done for wave ages
β
=0
.
4, 0.8 and 1.6.
the glint reflectance obtained with the new formulation, at the same wind
speed, specially for the low speed case (e.g. 2 m/s). This observation can
be explained with the help of Fig. 1. There we see that at low wind speed,
the empirical Cox and Munk
1
,
2
formulation is equivalent to the new for-
mulation only on the high wave age region (
β>
1
.
2), therefore the high
reflectivity observed on the simulated Sun glint is a direct effect of wave
