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Simulating the optical properties of phytoplankton cells using a two-layered spherical geometry
Abstract. Effective use of ocean colour and other bio-optical observations is dependent upon an ability to understand and characterise the angular scattering properties of phytoplankton populations. The two-layered sphere appears to offer the simplest heterogeneous geometry capable of simulating the observed angular scattering of phytoplankton cells. A study is made of the twolayered spherical model for the simulation of the inherent optical properties of algal populations, with a particular focus on backscattering as causal to ocean colour. Homogenous and two-layered volume-equivalent single particle models are used to examine the effects of varying cellular geometry, chloroplast volume, and complex refractive index on optical efficiency factors. A morphology with a chloroplast layer surrounding the cytoplasm is shown to be optimal for algal cell simulation. Appropriate chloroplast volume and refractive index ranges, and means of determining complex refractive indices for cellular chloroplast and cytoplasm material, are discussed with regard to available literature. The approach is expanded to polydispersed populations using equivalent size distribution models: to demonstrate variability in simulated inherent optical properties for phytoplankton assemblages of changing dominant cell size and functional type. Finally, a preliminary validation is conducted of inherent optical properties determined for natural phytoplankton populations with the two-layered model, using the reflectance approximation. The study demonstrates the validity of the two-layered geometry and refractive index structure, and indicates that the combined use of equivalent size distributions with the heterogeneous geometry can be used to establish a quantitative formulation between single particle optics, size and assemblage-specific inherent optical properties, and ocean colour.
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RC S384: 'Review of Bernard, Probyn, and Quirante', J Ronald Zaneveld, 09 Mar 2009
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RC S619: 'Review Bernard et al. 2009', Giorgio Dall'Olmo, 30 Mar 2009
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RC S654: 'review - BGD-0178', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Mar 2009
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RC S384: 'Review of Bernard, Probyn, and Quirante', J Ronald Zaneveld, 09 Mar 2009
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RC S654: 'review - BGD-0178', Anonymous Referee #2, 31 Mar 2009
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