Biogeo-optics: Particle optical properties and the partitioning of the spectral scattering coefficient of ocean waters

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2660-2679

  Stavn, Robert H ^a   Richter, Scott J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; LINEAR REGRESSION; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ABSORPTION AND SCATTERING OF LIGHT; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PARTICLE OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SCATTERING CROSS SECTION;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; GEOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEA; STATISTICAL MODEL;

GEOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; OPTICS; PARTICLE SIZE; RADIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL; WATER;

EID: 50349086108     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.002660     Document Type: Article

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