Polychromatic transmissometer for in situ measurements of suspended particles and gelbstoff in water

Applied Optics

Volumn 36, Issue 30, 1997, Pages 7919-7928

  Barth, Hans ^a   Grisard, Klaus ^b   Holtsch, Kurt ^b   Reuter, Rainer ^a   Stute, Uwe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b ME Meerestechnik Elektronik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Attenuation; Beam attenuation coefficient; Gelbstoff; Hydrosols; Polychromator; Spectrometer; Suspended particles; Transmissometer; Yellow substance

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

EID: 0031580860     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.36.007919     Document Type: Article

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