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Retrieval of phytoplankton biomass from simultaneous inversion of reflectance, the diffuse attenuation coefficient, and Sun-induced fluorescence in coastal waters
(2007-06)
[1] A model has been developed to retrieve phytoplankton absorption, a proxy for phytoplankton biomass, from observations of reflectance ( R) and the diffuse attenuation coefficient (K-d) collected by moored radiometers ...
Status of the iron hypothesis after the open-ocean enrichment experiment
(1995)
No abstract available.
Predicting and verifying the intended and unintended consequences of large-scale ocean iron fertilization
(2008)
Ocean iron fertilization (OIF) is being considered as a strategy for mitigating rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations. One model for implementation is the sale of carbon offsets. Modeling studies predict that OIF has the ...
Spectrally weighted transparency in models of water-column photosynthesis and photoinhibition by ultraviolet radiation
(2004)
We present a simple method for describing the influence of variable attenuation of spectral irradiance, Kd(lambda), on water-column photosynthesis and its inhibition by ultraviolet radiation (UV). The approach is based on ...
Optical detection and assessment of algal blooms
(1997-07)
Concerns about harmful algal blooms (HABs) have grown in recent years. There is a pressing need for robust, quantitative, and cost-effective methods to detect and characterize algal blooms. Critical applications of these ...
Vertical migration, nutrition and toxicity in the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense
(1997)
The effect of nitrate-N availability on paralytic shellfish toxin production by the dinoflagellate Alexandrium tamarense was studied in a vertically stratified laboratory water column (tank) where swimming behavior could ...
Methyl iodide in the NW Atlantic; spatial and seasonal variation
(American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2009)
While the global ocean is an important source of atmospheric methyl iodide (CH (sub 3) I), the major producers of CH (sub 3) I within the ocean remain unclear. During a seasonal study in the NW Atlantic, the relationship ...
Ocean Fertilization Science, Policy, and Commerce
(2009-09)
Over the past 20 years there has been growing interest in the concept of fertilizing the ocean with iron to abate global warming. This interest was catalyzed by basic scientific experiments showing that iron limits primary ...
Assessment of the relationships between dominant cell size in natural phytoplankton communities and the spectral shape of the absorption coefficient
(2002-03)
Size-fractionated chlorophyll concentration and phytoplankton absorption spectra were compared for a wide variety of natural communities. We found that, in general, when phytoplankton abundance increases, larger size-classes ...
Patterns and Prediction in Microbial Oceanography
(2007-06)
No abstract available.