Retrieving composition and sizes of oceanic particle subpopulations from the volume scattering function

Applied Optics

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1240-1259

  Zhang, Xiaodong ^a   Twardowski, Michael ^b   Lewis, Marlon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b WET Labs Inc   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BACKSCATTERING RATIO; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LINEAR INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOG-NORMAL SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; NATURAL VARIABILITY; NONNEGATIVE LEAST SQUARES; VOLUME SCATTERING FUNCTION;

INTEGRAL EQUATIONS;

EID: 79952803143     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.50.001240     Document Type: Article

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