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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Prog Oceanogr. 2018 Jan 6;160:186–212. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2018.01.001

Table 6:

Historical recommendations for the depolarization ratio, δ, of pure water.

δ (unitless) Reference
0.108 Kratohvil et al. (1965)
0.091 Morel (1974b), Shifrin (1988a)
0.051 Buiteveld et al. (1994a)
0.039 Jonasz and Fournier (2007)