Photochemical bleaching of oceanic dissolved organic matter and its effect on absorption spectral slope and fluorescence

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 155, Issue , 2013, Pages 81-91

  Helms, John R ^a   Stubbins, Aron ^b   Perdue, E Michael ^c,d   Green, Nelson W ^c,d   Chen, Hongmei ^a   Mopper, Kenneth ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d BALL STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Colored dissolved organic matter; Excitation emission matrix; Fluorescence; Light absorption; Photochemistry; Spectral slope

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BLEACHING; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUORESCENCE; IRRADIANCE; OPEN OCEAN; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; WAVELENGTH;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84880285192     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2013.05.015     Document Type: Article

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