Predicting the light attenuation coefficient through Secchi disk depth and beam attenuation coefficient in a large, shallow, freshwater lake

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 693, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 29-37

  Zhang, Yunlin ^a   Liu, Xiaohan ^a,b   Yin, Yan ^a,b   Wang, Mingzhu ^a,b   Qin, Boqiang ^a  

^a NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHY AND LIMNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Beam attenuation coefficient; Diffuse attenuation coefficient; Lake Taihu; Secchi disk depth

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ERROR ANALYSIS; EUTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; LAKE WATER; LIGHT ATTENUATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRECISION; PREDICTION; SHALLOW WATER;

EID: 84864312433     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-012-1084-2     Document Type: Article

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