Table 4:

Example of semi-analytical solution classes used in ocean-color algorithms.

Class	Methodology	Example usage
Non-linear spectral optimization	Levenberg Marquardt	Roesler and Perry (1995) Garver and Siegel (1997) Maritorena et al. (2002)
	Nelder-Mead	Evers-King et al. (2014)
	Particle swarm	Slade et al. (2004)
	Genetic algorithm	Haigang et al. (2003)
	Simulated annealing	Salinas et al. (2007)
Direct linear inversion	Linear matrix inversion	Hoge and Lyon (1996) Wang et al. (2005)
Spectral deconvolution	Step-wise algebraic	Lee et al. (2002) Smyth et al. (2006) Pinkerton et al. (2006)
Bulk inversion	Step-wise algebraic solving for each wavelength independently	Loisel and Stramski (2000)
Ensemble inversion	Adaptive linear matrix inversion	Brando et al. (2012)