Are the empirical relationships describing the bio-optical properties of case 1 waters consistent and internally compatible?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Morel, André ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLUTION; PORPHYRINS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENTS; BIO-OPTICAL; BIO-OPTICAL MODELS; BIO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATIONS; COLOR BANDS; DIFFUSE ATTENUATIONS; HISTORICAL RELATIONSHIPS; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; INVERSION SCHEMES; MEASURED PROPERTIES; NATURAL VARIABILITIES; PARTICLE ABSORPTIONS; PARTICULATE MATTERS; POWER FUNCTIONS; SINGLE SCATTERING ALBEDOS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ALGA; CHLOROPHYLL; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL PROPERTY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ALGAE;

EID: 63349097785     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JC004803     Document Type: Article

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