Processing notes:
25 April 2002
David Allison and Greg Mitchell
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
dallison@mpl.ucsd.edu
These data are from detrital absorption coefficients measured every 2 nm from 300 nm to 750 nm.
These data were originally processed by Greg Mitchell's Lab at SIO.
See Greg Mitchell for questions (gmitchell@ucsd.edu).
References to processing procedures are below.
The units for the detrital absorption coefficient as are (1/m).
References:
Mitchell, B. Greg (1990) Algorithms for determining the absorption coefficient of aquatic
particulates using the quantitative filter technique (QFT). Ocean Optics X, R Spinrad, ed.
Proc. Soc. Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, 1302: 137-148.
Mitchell, B. Greg, M. Kahru, J. Wieland and M. Stramska 2002. Determination
of spectral absorption coefficients of particles, dissolved material and
phytoplankton for discrete water samples. In: Ocean Optics Protocols for
Ocean Color Sensor Validation, Revision 3, Part II. James Mueller and
Giulietta Fargion, Editors. NASA Technical Memorandum NASA/TM-2002-21004/Rev3 Vol2.
A PDF of the memorandum cited above may be found at the following url:
http://simbios.gsfc.nasa.gov/Documents/Protocolrev3part2.pdf