Colored dissolved organic matter

Del Castillo, C.E., Gilbes, F., Coble, P.G., and Muller-Karger, F.E. (2000) On the dispersal of riverine colored dissolved organic matter over the West Florida Shelf. Limnol. Oceanogr. 45, 1425-1432. 

Keith, D.J., Yoder, J.A., and Freeman, S.A. (2002) Spatial and temporal distribution of colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island Implications for phytoplankton in coastal waters. Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 55, 705-717. 

Figure 4 Correlations of with (a) surfactant concentration, (b) in situ chlorophyll fluorescence, (c) dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and (d) colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) for seawater samples collected from Monterey Bay, USA ( ) and on a transect from Narragansett USA to Bermuda ( ) (Frew, 1997) (reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press from The Sea Surface and Global Change, 1997, pp. 121-172).

N.B. Nelson, D.A. Siegel, A.F. Michaels (1998). Seasonal dynamics of colored dissolved organic matter in the Sargasso Sea (Part I), Deep-Sea Res., 45, 931-957. 

S.S. Andrews, S. Caron, O.C. Zafiriou (2000). Photochemical oxygen demand in marine waters A major sink for colored dissolved organic matter Limnol. Oceanogr., 45,267-m. 

D. Repeta, S. John (2002). Chemical characterization of colored dissolved organic matter in seawater. Eos, 83, OS22J-04. 

Siegel, D.A., Maritorena, S., Nelson, N.B., Behrenfield, M.J., and McClain, C.R. (2005). Colored dissolved organic matter and its influence on the satellite-based characterization of the ocean biosphere. Geophys. Res. Lett, 32, L20605. 

Conmy, R.N. (2008). Temporal and Spatial Patterns in Optical Properties of Colored Dissolved Organic Matter on Florida s Gulf Coast Shelf to Stream to Aquifer. Ph.D. dissertation. College of Marine Science, University of South Horida, St. Petersburg, 134 pp. 

Belzile, C Gibson, J. A.E., and Vincent, W.F. (2002). Colored dissolved organic matter and dissolved organic carbon exclusion from lake ice Implications for irradiance transmission and carbon cycling. Limnol. Oceanogr., 47(5), 1283-1293. 

Boehme, J.R. and Coble, P.G. (2000). Characterization of colored dissolved organic matter using high-energy laser fragmentation. Environ. Sci. TechnoL, 34(15), 3283-3290. 

Conmy, R.N., Coble, RG., Chen, R.F., and Gardner, G.B. (2004). Optical properties of colored dissolved organic matter in the Northern Gulf of Mexico. Mar. Chem., 89(1-4), 127-144. 

Gueguen, C., Guo, L.D., Yamamoto-Kawai, M., and Tanaka, N. (2007). Colored dissolved organic matter dynamics across the shelf-basin interface in the western Arctic Ocean. J.Geophys. Res. Oceans, 112, C05038, doi 10.1029/2006JC003584. 

Figure 8.1. Schematic of the overlap between dissolved organic matter (DOM), colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM), and fluorescent dissolved organic matter (FDOM).

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