1. Parameterization of the chlorophyll a-specific in vivo light absorption coefficient covering estuarine, coastal and oceanic waters
- Author
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Stiig Markager and Peter A. Staehr
- Subjects
Hydrology ,Chlorophyll a ,geography ,geography.geographical_feature_category ,Absorption spectroscopy ,Analytical chemistry ,Estuary ,Spectral line ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Attenuation coefficient ,Chlorophyll ,Phytoplankton ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Absorption (electromagnetic radiation) - Abstract
We evaluated models predicting the spectral chlorophyll-a (Chl a)-specific absorption coefficient (a* ph (λ)) from Chl a concentration [Chl a] on the basis of 465 phytoplankton absorption spectra collected in estuarine, coastal and oceanic waters. A power model on ln-transformed data provided the best model fit compared to a power model on non-transformed data previously applied to parameterize the relationship between a* ph (λ) and [Chl a]. The variation in a* ph (λ) was parameterized over four orders of magnitude in [Chl a] (0.01-100 mg Chl a m−3) producing a 13-fold range in a* ph (0.19 to 0.015 m2 mg−1 Chl a) at 440 nm, the peak absorption of Chl a in the blue part of the spectrum. The variations in the modelled a* ph spectra were within realistic predictions of a* ph (λ) and the model satisfactorily reproduced the spectral flattening with increasing [Chl a]. The parameterization of a* ph (λ) confirmed the indirect dependency of a* ph (λ) on [Chl a] through co-variations between [Chl a] with pigment p...
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- 2004