Optical modeling and measurements of a coccolithophore bloom

Applied Optics

Volumn 41, Issue 36, 2002, Pages 7679-7688

  Smyth, Timothy J ^a   Moore, Gerald F ^a   Groom, Stephen B ^a   Land, Peter E ^a   Tyrrell, Toby ^b  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

HYDROLIGHT RADIATIVE-TRANSFER MODELS;

OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0037147475     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 21553165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.41.007679     Document Type: Article

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