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_1, ad_1, aph_1, ap_2, ad_2, aph_2
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_250, abs_254, abs_350, abs_365, abs_412, abs_440, abs_ratio_250_365
ISPP14C Synthesis	In situ primary productivity 14C	Biowatt II, ARLINDO, ISPP14C, PRPOOS Tracer Kinetics, PRPOOS logistics, Arabian Sea Primary Prod, Arabian Sea, AESOPS, KD490 Upgrade, NABE, AESOPS Primary Production, ML-ML, Arabian Sea Photo-Ecology, Arabian Sea Phyto Seasonality, ON DEQUE, Biowatt I, JGOFS NABE Primary Prod 20W	aphi_440, aphi_fpt, aph_pig_m_1, aphiw_pig
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	dom_slope, dom_S275_295, dom_S350_400, bepom_a254, bepom_a300, bepom_a320, bepom_slope, bepom_S275_295, dom_a254, bepom_S350_400, dom_a300, dom_a320
San Francisco Bay Transects	Vascular plant and microbial biomarkers of dissolved organic matter from San Francisco Bay transects	DOM biomarkers	abs_254, abs_350, abs_365, abs_412, abs_440, abs_ratio_250_365, SUVA254, abs_250

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Parameter: absorption coefficient