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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
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 …
Evaluation Of Diagnostic Pigments To Estimate Phytoplankton Size Classes, Alison P. Chase, Sasha J. Kramer, Nils Haëntjens, Emmanuel S. Boss, Lee Karp-Boss, Mimi Edmondson, Jason R. Graff
Evaluation Of Diagnostic Pigments To Estimate Phytoplankton Size Classes, Alison P. Chase, Sasha J. Kramer, Nils Haëntjens, Emmanuel S. Boss, Lee Karp-Boss, Mimi Edmondson, Jason R. Graff
Marine Sciences Faculty Scholarship
Limnology and Oceanography: Methods published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. on behalf of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography. Phytoplankton accessory pigments are commonly used to estimate phytoplankton size classes, particularly during development and validation of biogeochemical models and satellite ocean color-based algorithms. The diagnostic pigment analysis (DPA) is based on bulk measurements of pigment concentrations and relies on assumptions regarding the presence of specific pigments in different phytoplankton taxonomic groups. Three size classes are defined by the DPA: picoplankton, nanoplankton, and microplankton. Until now, the DPA has not been evaluated against an independent approach that provides phytoplankton size …