Water inherent optical properties and concentrations of water constituents from the German Bight and adjacent regions: spectral data of the total non-water light absorption coefficient

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A regional data set of water constituent concentrations and inherent optical properties (light absorption and scattering coefficient) for the German Bight and adjacent waters (River Elbe, North Sea, UK waters, and Southern Norwegian Sea) is presented. The data provide high quality results of in situ measurements and laboratory analysis of samples taken at sea, mainly from the mixed layer, during the years 2008 to 2021. Parameters of the water constituents include concentrations of chlorophyll a, particulate organic and dissolved organic carbon (POC, DOC), total suspended matter (TSM), organic suspended matter (OSM) together with water depth, temperature, salinity, and turbidity. Inherent optical properties (IOPs) are given spectrally as light attenuation, scattering and absorption coefficients. This includes coefficients of light attenuation by all non-water matter (cgp) and particulate matter alone (cp), light absorption by all non-water matter (agp), particulate (ap) and dissolved matter (Gelbstoff, ag), non-algal matter (anap) and phytoplankton (aph), and total scattering (bp) and backscattering (bbp) by particulate matter. The combination of concentrations and IOPS is used to determine specific IOPs of German Bight water and in optical modelling of coastal waters to interpret surface reflectance spectra like in satellite remote sensing approaches.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.954975
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.950774
Metadata Access https://ws.pangaea.de/oai/provider?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=datacite4&identifier=oai:pangaea.de:doi:10.1594/PANGAEA.954975
Provenance
Creator Röttgers, Rüdiger ORCID logo; Bi, Shun; Burmester, Henning; Heymann, Kerstin; Hieronymi, Martin ORCID logo; Krasemann, Hajo; Schönfeld, Wolfgang
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2023
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 135524 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (-7.816W, 49.829S, 10.079E, 61.071N); North Sea; English Channel; Celtic Sea; Bristol Channel; Irish Sea; Scotland Sea; North Atlantic Ocean
Temporal Coverage Begin 2008-04-28T06:14:10Z
Temporal Coverage End 2021-07-02T09:24:20Z