Table 1:
Example methods for deriving normalized aph(λ).
| Reference | Uses measured data (Y/N) |
Input data required |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prieur and Sathyendranath (1981) | Y | Ca | Single a*ph(λ) vector |
| Roesler et al. (1989) | Y | Ca | Single a*ph(λ) shape |
| Lee et al. (1996) | N | Ca | Blends two Gaussian basis vectors |
| Bricaud et al. (1995) | Y | Ca | Blends two basis vectors |
| Bricaud et al. (1998) | Y | Ca | Blends two basis vectors |
| Hoge and Lyon (1996) | N | Ca | Single Gaussian basis vector (Hoepffner and Sathyendranath 1993) |
| Sathyendranath et al. (2001) | Y | Ca | Blends a*ph(λ) basis vectors for two phytoplankton populations |
| Ciotti et al. (2002) | Y | Size parameter, Sf | Blends a*ph(λ) basis vectors for micro- and picophytoplankton |