Study of Sea Fog Environment Polarization Transmission Characteristics

Sea fog is a particular kind of atmospheric aerosol that often poses hidden risks to ship navigation, ocean exploration, human productivity, and life. In light of the aforementioned issues, this research conducted a thorough investigation of the polarization transmission properties in a sea fog environment. We studied the physical characteristics of sea fog and established a polarized radiative transfer model based on RT3/PolRadtran (polarized radiative transfer) in a sea fog environment based on the theory of Mie scattering. The effects of wavelength, polarization state, sea fog concentration, and salt content on the polarization degree were simulated by using the polarization transport model. An indoor sea fog simulation device was designed and built. The simulation test results were compared with the experimental test results from many aspects, and the existing errors were analyzed so that they could be mutually verified for the overall trend. According to the modeling results, distinct polarization states of light exhibit evident depolarization as the sea fog concentration rises. Overall, circularly polarized light has superior polarization-maintaining properties compared to linearly polarized light under the same contrast settings. The penetrating impact of incoming light in the visible range improves with increasing wavelength, and the amount of salt in sea fog has some bearing on the degree of polarization.