Light scattering by coccoliths detached from Emiliania huxleyi

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 31, 2009, Pages 6059-6073

  Gordon, Howard R ^a   Smyth, Timothy J ^b   Balch, William M ^c   Chris Boynton, G ^a   Tarran, Glen A ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; LIGHT SCATTERING;

BACKSCATTERING CROSS SECTION; COCCOLITHOPHORES; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; PHYSICAL MODEL; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SPECTRAL BACKSCATTERING; SPECTRAL SHAPES;

BACKSCATTERING;

CALCIUM CARBONATE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BROWN ALGA; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSIL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOMETRY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEA; SEDIMENT;

ALGAE, BROWN; ALGORITHMS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LIGHT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OCEANS AND SEAS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70449671212     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.006059     Document Type: Article

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