Light backscattering properties of marine phytoplankton: relationships to cell size, chemical composition and taxonomy

By R. Vaillancourt, Chris W. Brown, R. Guillard, William M. Balch. 2004

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Investigation of the optical backscattering to scattering ratio of marine particles in relation to their biogeochemical composition in the eastern English Channel and southern North Sea (2007, background): “Note that the relatively small contribution of living phytoplankton to bbp is still controversial, as both Mie calculations performed with layered spheres (Kitchen and Zaneveld 1992; Zaneveld and Kitchen 1995) instead of homogeneous spheres (Morel and Ahn 1991; Stramski and Kieffer 1991), as well as”
Light and photosynthetic microalgae: A review of cellular- and molecular-scale optical processes (2018, background): “The backscattering ratio of algal cells, a quantity of special importance in remote sensing, is typically < 3 % and often two or three orders of magnitude lower than the total scattered light (Ahn et al. 1992; Vaillancourt et al. 2004; Whitmire et al. 2010).”