Measurement of dissolved organic matter fluorescence in aquatic environments: An interlaboratory comparison

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 24, 2010, Pages 9405-9412

  Murphy, Kathleen R ^a,b   Butler, Kenna D ^c   Spencer, Robert G M ^d   Stedmon, Colin A ^e   Boehme, Jennifer R ^f   Aiken, George R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^f NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS; AUSTRALIA; DATA QUALITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTERS; FLUORESCENCE MEASUREMENTS; FLUORESCENCE STUDIES; FLUORESCENT PROPERTY; INTERLABORATORY COMPARISON; LABORATORY PROCEDURES; MATLAB SCRIPTS; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; RESEARCH GROUPS; SPECTRAL CORRECTION; SPECTRAL FLUORESCENCE STANDARDS; STANDARD METHOD; STANDARD PROTOCOLS; WAVELENGTH DEPENDENCY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; STANDARDS;

FLUORESCENCE;

DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; CALIBRATION; DATA QUALITY; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EUROPE; FLUORESCENCE; LABORATORY; UNITED STATES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLUORESCENCE; FRESH WATER; LABORATORIES; OBSERVER VARIATION; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

AUSTRALIA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78650299440     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es102362t     Document Type: Article

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