Parameter: absorption coefficient

Short Description:

absorption coefficient

Short Name:

absorption_coefficient

Official Name:

absorption coefficient

Units:

1/m

Graphable:

Yes

No Data Value:

Description

The fraction of incident flux which is absorbed, divided by the thickness of the medium layer.

Datasets associated with this parameter

Dataset Name	Brief Description	Project	PI-Supplied Parameter Name
Absorption coefficients		CDOM Optical Properties	a280, a350, sp_a280, sp_a350
CDOM	CDOM	Bacterial DOC Sensor	absp_coef
DEPRECATED: Optical properties	DEPRECATED: Optical properties 2016 & 2017	Varadero Reef	absorp_coeff_pigm_unit, absorp_coeff_aSymb
GT10 - CDOM	Absorption coefficients of Colored Dissolved Organic matter (CDOM)	U.S. GEOTRACES NAT	absp_coef
GT10 - Spctrl_Absp	Spectral absorption coefficients of phytoplankton	U.S. GEOTRACES NAT	ap_2, ad_2, aph_2, ap_1, ad_1, aph_1
Hurricane Matthew Geochemical Data	Water geochemistry from surface samples collected along the Neuse River, Neuse River Estuary, and Pamlico Sound in North Carolina between October and December 2016, following the passage of Hurricane Matthew	HMATT	CDOM
Incubation Data	Results of incubation experiments	DOM biomarkers	abs_365, abs_412, abs_440, abs_ratio_250_365, abs_250, abs_254, abs_350
ISPP14C Synthesis	In situ primary productivity 14C	KD490 Upgrade, ML-ML, Arabian Sea Photo-Ecology, JGOFS NABE Primary Prod 20W, ON DEQUE, Arabian Sea Phyto Seasonality, ISPP14C, ARLINDO, Biowatt I, PRPOOS Tracer Kinetics, Arabian Sea, Arabian Sea Primary Prod, NABE, AESOPS Primary Production, Biowatt II, PRPOOS logistics, AESOPS	aphi_440, aphiw_pig, aphi_fpt, aph_pig_m_1
North Atlantic CDOM Absorption Coefficients	Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) Napierian absorption coefficients for open ocean blue water samples from the North Atlantic subtropical gyre	MODIE	CDOM_absorption_a_g
PlankDOM NA1	Dissolved organic matter (DOM) and base-extracted particulate organic matter (BEPOM) collected from a plankton senescence experiment from water samples offshore of North Carolina	PlankDOM	bepom_a254, bepom_a300, bepom_a320, bepom_slope, bepom_S275_295, dom_a254, bepom_S350_400, dom_a300, dom_a320, dom_slope, dom_S275_295, dom_S350_400
San Francisco Bay Transects	Vascular plant and microbial biomarkers of dissolved organic matter from San Francisco Bay transects	DOM biomarkers	abs_440, abs_ratio_250_365, SUVA254, abs_250, abs_254, abs_350, abs_365, abs_412

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Parameter: absorption coefficient