A model for estimating bulk refractive index from the optical backscattering ratio and the implications for understanding particle composition in case I and case II waters

By Michael Twardowski, Emmanuel S. Boss, Jacob B. Macdonald, W. Pegau, A. Barnard, J. Zaneveld. 2001

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Subfields: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Oceanography, Water Science and Technology

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Measurements and characterization of particle size distributions in coastal waters (2010, methodology): “3.2.2. Performance of Power Law as a Model of the PSD Shape [60] Models for seawater optical properties frequently use a power law approximation of the PSD (equation (2)) [Stramski and Kiefer, 1991; Boss et al., 2001; Twardowski et al., 2001 ].”
Particulate backscattering ratio at LEO 15 and its use to study particle composition and distribution (2004, methodology): “phytoplankton and inorganic sediment [Twardowski et al., 2001] and errors of O(10%) in the backscattering ratio will”
INHERENT OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF NON-SPHERICAL MARINE-LIKE PARTICLES — FROM THEORY TO OBSERVATION (2007, methodology): “Simple analytical solutions for Cc, Ca and Cb have been derived for spheres and for some simple shapes by van de Hulst (1981) and Aas (1984).”
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, methodology): “(1996) as well as to previous estimations of the NODM refractive index that showed that NODM and living organic material (phytoplankton and heterotrophic bacteria) have similar refractive index (Morel and Ahn 1990; Bricaud et al. 1995; Twardowski et al. 2001).”
Spectral dependency of optical backscattering by marine particles from satellite remote sensing of the global ocean (2006, background): “consistent with recent in situ measurements performed in different environments [Twardowski et al., 2001; Boss et al., 2004].”
Particle optical backscattering along a chlorophyll gradient in the upper layer of the eastern South Pacific Ocean (2007, methodology): “…about, the size distribution function and bulk refractive index of the particle population (Ulloa et al., 1994; Morel and Maritorena, 2001; Twardowski et al., 2001), and (ii) the sum of bbp(λ) and the backscattering coefficient of pure water, bbw (λ), governs the reflectance of the upper…”
Carbon‐based ocean productivity and phytoplankton physiology from space (2005, background): “Such covariability in components of the particle assemblage is evidenced by the relatively constant slope of the particle size spectrum in open ocean waters [Bader, 1970; Stramski and Kiefer, 1991; Kiefer and Berwald, 1992] (see also discussion by Twardowski et al. [2001] ) and is responsible for r”
Beam attenuation and chlorophyll concentration as alternative optical indices of phytoplankton biomass (2006, methodology): “The conservative nature of open ocean particle size distributions (Bader, 1970; Stramski and Kiefer, 1991; Kiefer and Berwald, 1992; Twardowski et al., 2001) and the reasonably constrained contribution of phytoplankton to total particulate carbon (Eppley et al., 1992; DuRand and Olson, 1996;…”