Table 3.

Average magnitudes of the spectral absorption and backscattering coefficients associated with individual constituents for each cluster.

Cluster	λ (nm)	a w	a cdom	a nap	a ph	a	b bw	b bp	b b
P	443	0.007	0.022	0.013	0.005	0.047	0.0020	0.0010	0.0030
		(15.0)	(46.3)	(28.4)	(10.3)		(67.5)	(32.5)
	555	0.060	0.002	0.007	0.001	0.070	0.0008	0.0015	0.0015
		(85.7)	(3.0)	(10.4)	(0.9)		(53.0)	(47.0)
	670	0.439	0.0002	0.005	0.002	0.446	0.0003	0.0009	0.0009
		(98.5)	(0.04)	(1.1)	(0.4)		(36.1)	(63.9)
N	443	0.007	0.109	0.023	0.011	0.150	0.0017	132.58	132.59
		(5.3)	(69.2)	(16.5)	(9.1)		(14.0)	(86.0)
	555	0.060	0.017	0.011	0.002	0.089	0.0007	83.81	83.81
		(67.8)	(17.7)	(12.7)	(1.8)		(8.9)	(91.1)
	670	0.439	0.002	0.008	0.004	0.453	0.0002	58.83	58.83
		(96.9)	(0.5)	(1.7)	(0.9)		(3.7)	(96.3)
M	443	0.007	0.085	0.040	0.057	0.188	0.0020	0.0143	0.0163
		(6.4)	(52.3)	(17.2)	(24.1)		(32.4)	(67.6)
	555	0.060	0.014	0.015	0.013	0.102	0.0009	0.0116	0.0125
		(66.5)	(11.6)	(11.9)	(10.1)		(23.1)	(76.9)
	670	0.439	0.002	0.010	0.036	0.487	0.0003	0.0098	0.0101
		(91.3)	(0.4)	(1.8)	(6.4)		(14.0)	(86.0)
O	443	0.007	0.085	0.029	0.016	0.137	0.0020	0.0340	0.0360
		(11.3)	(61.2)	(14.7)	(12.8)		(48.2)	(51.8)
	555	0.060	0.015	0.014	0.003	0.092	0.0009	0.0265	0.0274
		(76.7)	(10.7)	(10.3)	(2.3)		(38.3)	(61.7)
	670	0.439	0.003	0.009	0.007	0.458	0.0004	0.0216	0.0219
		(96.2)	(10.3)	(1.9)	(1.4)		(27.7)	(72.3)

All coefficients are in units of m⁻¹. The values within parentheses indicate the average contribution in percentage of individual constituents to either a(λ) or b _b(λ).