TITLE:   Palmer LTER: Open water PUV albedo measurements
AUTHORS: Karen W. Patterson, Philip L. Handley and Raymond C. Smith
DATE:    1996
Palmer LTER Contribution No. 107
Antarctic Journal  of the United States, (accepted)

Abstract - 
It is widely documented that reduced ozone will result in increased
levels of ultraviolet (UV) radiation, especially UV-B (280-320nm), 
incident at the surface of the earth and there is increasing evidence
to suggest that these higher levels of UV-B may have an important
impact on various forms of marine life in the upper layers of the 
ocean (Ha\*:der et al., 1994; Smith & Cullen, 1995).
Measurement and/or estimation of incident spectral irradiance, especially
in the UV region, is a necessary element for a quantitative assessment of
possible UV affects.  In the modeling of incident irradiance, the surface
spectral albedo can have a significant influence, via refluxing between
surface and clouds, on the incident spectral irradiance (Gautier et al.,
personal communication). 
In the following we present preliminary measurements for the spectral
albedo of open ocean water which we believe are the first such 
data for a high latitude region.