Light scattering phase functions of turbid coastal waters measured in LEO-15 experiment in 2000

We propose additional 60 new experimental phase functions of light scattering by natural seawater measured in the very turbid waters of the Atlantic during the LEO-15 experiment off the New Jersey coast. Previously published experimental phase functions include 15 phase functions by Petzold measured in California Bay and 41 phase functions by Mankovsky measured in waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Southern oceans, Mediterranean and Black seas, and Lake Baikal. All previously published phase functions correspond to waters with beam scattering coefficients in the range of 0.08 to 1.8 l/m. the newly measure phase functions expand the range of scattering coefficients more than five times up to 9.3 l/m.