Effects of particle aggregation and disaggregation on their inherent optical properties

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 7945-7959

  Slade, Wayne H ^a   Boss, Emmanuel ^a   Russo, Clementina ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; INSTRUMENTS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PUMPING (LASER);

ACCEPTANCE ANGLE; COASTAL WATERS; DISAGGREGATION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES; LASER PARTICLE SIZING; MULTIPLE INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE AGGREGATION; PARTICULATE MATERIALS; SCATTERING PROPERTY; SOLID PARTICLES; SOLID SPHERES; SPECTRAL BEAMS; SPECTRAL SHAPES; SPECTRAL SLOPES;

AGGLOMERATION;

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PHOTOMETRY; REFRACTOMETRY; SEA;

NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICULATE MATTER; REFRACTOMETRY; WATER;

EID: 79955373207     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.007945     Document Type: Article

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