Assessment of the ultraviolet radiation field in ocean waters from space-based measurements and full radiative-transfer calculations

Applied Optics

Volumn 44, Issue 14, 2005, Pages 2863-2869

  Vasilkov, Alexander P ^a   Herman, Jay R ^b   Ahmad, Ziauddin ^c   Kahru, Mati ^d   Mitchell, B Greg ^d  

^a SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c Science and Data Systems Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OZONE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEAWATER; SPECTROMETERS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTY (IOP); OZONE MONITORING INSTRUMENTS (OMI); RADIATIVE TRANSFER (RT); TOTAL OZONE MAPPING SPECTROMETER (TOMS);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHLOROPHYLL; ORGANIC COMPOUND; WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EVALUATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIATION DOSE; SEA; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; VALIDATION STUDY; WATER POLLUTION;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; OCEANS AND SEAS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHYTOPLANKTON; RADIATION DOSAGE; SPACECRAFT; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; WATER; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 19944413321     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.44.002863     Document Type: Article

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