It is my understanding that sun glint is associated with reflection of
sunlight off of a body of water. I would
suggest amending the definition to the following:
The angle between an incident beam of solar radiation and the outgoing
beam specularly reflected at a sea surface.
Sincerely,
Gary Meehan
On 1/29/2014 9:05 AM, rhorne at excaliburlabs.com wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I would like to propose the following...
>
> standard_name: sunglint_angle
>
> definition:
>
> The sunglint angle is that between the direction of the beam of
> incident solar radiation and the direction into which it is reflected.
>
> canonical units:
>
> rad
>
>
>
> Note that I used the existing CF standard name "scattering_angle" as a
> model for the definition and canonical units.
>
>
>
> very respectfully,
>
> randy
>
>
>
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