The optical volume scattering function in a surf zone inverted to derive sediment and bubble particle subpopulations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Twardowski, Michael ^a   Zhang, Xiaodong ^b   Vagle, Svein ^c   Sullivan, James ^a   Freeman, Scott ^a   Czerski, Helen ^d   You, Yu ^e   Bi, Lei ^e   Kattawar, George ^e  

^a Department of Research WET Labs ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; VIDEO RECORDING;

ACOUSTICAL MEASUREMENTS; BUBBLE PLUMES; COATED-BUBBLE; DISCRETE DIPOLE APPROXIMATION; FITTING PROCEDURE; GEOMETRIC OPTICS; INVERSION RESULTS; LEAST SQUARES MINIMIZATION; LORENZ-MIE THEORY; MINERAL PARTICLES; MULTI-ANGLE; NON-SPHERICAL; OPTICAL TOOLS; PARTICLE POPULATION; PHASE FUNCTIONS; SHAPED PARTICLES; STABLE SOLUTIONS; SUB-SURFACE OCEAN; SURF ZONES; THEORETICAL PREDICTION; UNDERLYING DYNAMICS; VOLUME SCATTERING FUNCTION;

REFRACTIVE INDEX;

AGGREGATE; FREQUENCY-MAGNITUDE DISTRIBUTION; LIGHT SCATTERING; MIE THEORY; PARTICLE SIZE; PLUME; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUBPOPULATION; SURF ZONE; VIDEOGRAPHY; VOLUME;

EID: 84863115213     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007347     Document Type: Article

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