Optical variability of seawater in relation to particle concentration, composition, and size distribution in the nearshore marine environment at Imperial Beach, California

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Woźniak, Sawomir B ^a,b   Stramski, Dariusz ^b   Stramska, Malgorzata ^c   Reynolds, Rick A ^b   Wright, Vanessa M ^b   Miksic, Ezra Y ^b   Cichocka, Marta ^b   Cieplak, Agnieszka M ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BEACHES; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PORPHYRINS; SEAWATER; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENTS; BEAM ATTENUATION; CALIFORNIA; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; HYPERSPECTRAL; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MASS CONCENTRATION; MEDIAN DIAMETERS; MINERAL PARTICLES; MULTI-STEP; NEARSHORES; ORGANIC PARTICLES; PARTICLE COMPOSITION; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SCATTERING CO-EFFICIENT; SPECTRAL RANGE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTERS;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SEAWATER; SPECTRUM; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

CALIFORNIA; IMPERIAL BEACH; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956273380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005554     Document Type: Article

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