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Chlorophyll Absorption And Phytoplankton Size Information Inferred From Hyperspectral Particulate Beam Attenuation, Henry F. Houskeeper, David Draper, Raphael M. Kudela, Emmanuel Boss Aug 2020

Chlorophyll Absorption And Phytoplankton Size Information Inferred From Hyperspectral Particulate Beam Attenuation, Henry F. Houskeeper, David Draper, Raphael M. Kudela, Emmanuel Boss

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Electromagnetic theory predicts spectral dependencies in extinction efficiency near a narrow absorption band for a particle with an index of refraction close to that of the medium in which it is immersed. These absorption band effects are anticipated in oceanographic beam-attenuation (beam-c) spectra, primarily due to the narrow red peak in absorption produced by the phytoplankton photopigment, chlorophyll a (Chl a). Here we present a method to obtain Chl a absorption and size information by analyzing an eigendecomposition of hyperspectral beam-c residuals measured in marine surface waters by an automatic underway system. We find that three principal modes capture more …


Accuracy Of The Generic Equation To Convert Cci To Chlorophyll Concentration In The Apogee Model Mc-100 Chlorophyll Concentration Meter, Shuyang Zhen, Paul Kusuma May 2020

Accuracy Of The Generic Equation To Convert Cci To Chlorophyll Concentration In The Apogee Model Mc-100 Chlorophyll Concentration Meter, Shuyang Zhen, Paul Kusuma

Techniques and Instruments

Chlorophyll strongly absorbs photons below 700 nm and transmits above 700 nm. Because of this property, chlorophyll concentration can be estimated by measuring the ratio of transmitted photons though a leaf at specific wavelengths. Chlorophyll concentration is then calculated using empirical relationships.


Phytoplankton Phenology In The North Atlantic: Insights From Profiling Float Measurements, Bo Yang, Emmanuel S. Boss, Nils Haëntjens, Matthew C. Long, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Rachel Eveleth, Scott C. Doney Apr 2020

Phytoplankton Phenology In The North Atlantic: Insights From Profiling Float Measurements, Bo Yang, Emmanuel S. Boss, Nils Haëntjens, Matthew C. Long, Michael J. Behrenfeld, Rachel Eveleth, Scott C. Doney

Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship

There was a typographical error in Equation (1) of our article, where the first term in the denominator should be 0.022 rather than 0.22. The fully corrected equation should be: (Formula presented.). The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.


Analysis Of Iron Sources In Antarctic Continental Shelf Waters, Michael S. Dinniman, Pierre St-Laurent, Kevin R. Arrigo, Eileen E. Hofmann, Gert L. Van Dijken Jan 2020

Analysis Of Iron Sources In Antarctic Continental Shelf Waters, Michael S. Dinniman, Pierre St-Laurent, Kevin R. Arrigo, Eileen E. Hofmann, Gert L. Van Dijken

CCPO Publications

Previous studies showed that satellite‐derived estimates of chlorophyll a in coastal polynyas over the Antarctic continental shelf are correlated with the basal melt rate of adjacent ice shelves. A 5‐km resolution ocean/sea ice/ice shelf model of the Southern Ocean is used to examine mechanisms that supply the limiting micronutrient iron to Antarctic continental shelf surface waters. Four sources of dissolved iron are simulated with independent tracers, assumptions about the source iron concentration for each tracer, and an idealized summer biological uptake. Iron from ice shelf melt provides about 6% of the total dissolved iron in surface waters. The contribution from …