why is water blue?

[trevorjohnson83]

As you descend down in the water and look at the sun it gradually turns blue.

My guess, the light has to push harder to get through the water.

red shift blue shift though no Rayleigh scattering'.

Any other guesses?

 

[Hafar1014]

Its not its clear you're seeing the sky reflected in the water

 

[trevorjohnson83]

Its not its clear you're seeing the sky reflected in the water

doubt it

 

[mudwhistle]

As you descend down in the water and look at the sun it gradually turns blue.

My guess, the light has to push harder to get through the water.

red shift blue shift though no Rayleigh scattering'.

Any other guesses?

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see.


The ocean may also take on green, red, or other hues as light bounces off of floating sediments and particles in the water.


Most of the ocean, however, is completely dark. Hardly any light penetrates deeper than 656 feet, and no light penetrates deeper than 3,280 feet.

Why is the ocean blue?

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see.

oceanservice.noaa.gov

 

[Crepitus]

As you descend down in the water and look at the sun it gradually turns blue.

My guess, the light has to push harder to get through the water.

red shift blue shift though no Rayleigh scattering'.

Any other guesses?

Water absorbs longer-wavelength colors (red, orange, yellow) from sunlight, while absorbing very little blue light, which passes through and scatters.

 

[1srelluc]

So why does the Atlantic have a sort of a green hue to it.

 

[Dante]

As you descend down in the water and look at the sun it gradually turns blue.

My guess, the light has to push harder to get through the water.

red shift blue shift though no Rayleigh scattering'.

Any other guesses?

For the same reason people are BLue?

Is water or the sky really blue?

 

[Dante]

So why does the Atlantic have a sort of a green hue to it.

Because we are color-blind?

Wait!

Colorblind?

never mind

 

[Meathead]

doubt it

Obviously, is the sea blue at night?

 

[odanny]

Or green.

 

[trevorjohnson83]

So why does the Atlantic have a sort of a green hue to it.

when you descend into the water and look at the sun it turns green before totally blue

 

[leftwinger]

Rivers look brown most of time from above. Dirty looking mist always. Not blue So stop on me!

Now you will say its sedimentorman made. The ocean has sediment too?

 

[the watcher]

If you look at the Potomac River now it throws some shit in the game. A bluebird isn't blue until the sun's rays hit it, same reason.