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Seawater Fluorescence
Instrument Type: Seapoint Chlorophyll Fluorometer
Description: High performance instrument of in situ measurements of chlorophyll a. The open sample volume has good ambient light rejection and a low temperature coefficient.
Location: Attached to SBE16+. Water sampled in sump at Laboratory seawater intake.
Latitude 38° 18’ 58.2” N
Longitude 123° 04’ 10.2” W
Installed: 21 March 2003
Specifications
Excitation Wavelength: 470 nm peak, 30 nm FBHM
Emission Wavelength: 685 nm peak, 30 nm FBHM
Sensing Volume: 340 mm3
Min. Detectable Level: 0.02 µg/l
Operating Temperature: 0 to 65 °C
Temperature Coefficient: <0.2 % / °C
Acquisition Settings:
Gain: 3x; 0.1 V / (µg/l)
Internal low-pass filter of 0.1 second time constant
Data logged at 10 second intervals, no averaging
Shore Station Fluorescence Data
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