Scattering and attenuation properties of Emiliania huxleyi cells and their detached coccoliths

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 870-876

  Voss, Kenneth J ^a   Balch, William M ^b   Kilpatrick, Katherine A ^c  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCCOLITH; EMILIANA HUXLEYI;

ALGAL BLOOM; DIATOM; LIGHT ATTENUATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

ALGAE; BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMILIANA; EMILIANA HUXLEYI; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0031710880     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1998.43.5.0870     Document Type: Article

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