Abstract:
A bio-optical instrument package was used to vertically profile a K. brevis bloom on the West Florida Shelf in October
2001. The inherent optical properties of the population were used to quantify and discuss the impacts on remote sensing
of algal blooms. Vertically dependent changes in attenuation coefficients on the order of 4-5 fold were measured as
the population migrated to the surface and back to the bottom over the diel period. The changes in lOPs affected the
spectral distribution of the remote sensing reflectance as the population migrated to the surface. This shift reflected the
vertical migration and the cell cycle biology.
Description:
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