Light Absorption by Optically Active Components in the Arctic Region (August 2020) and the Possibility of Application to Satellite Products for Water Quality Assessment

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Authors: Tatiana Efimova, Tatiana Churilova, Elena Skorokhod, Vyacheslav Suslin, Anatoly S. Buchelnikov, Dmitry Glukhovets, Aleksandr Khrapko, Natalia Moiseeva
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: total non-water spectral light absorption coefficients; chlorophyll a; light absorption parameterization; remote sensing; validation of satellite products; the Arctic Region; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Barents Sea; Norwegian Sea; The Sentinel; Phytoplankton
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15174346

In August 2020, during the 80th cruise of the R/V “Akademik Mstislav Keldysh”, the chlorophyll a concentration (Chl-a) and spectral coefficients of light absorption by phytoplankton pigments, non-algal particles (NAP) and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) were measured in the Norwegian Sea, th...