Table A‐1: Metadata, IOPs and AOPs given at wavelength
λ, and biogeochemical in situ measurements available for the CoastColour sites. The two notations Chl‐a and TChl‐a refer to Chlorophyll‐a concentration measured by High‐Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) and by fluorometry respectively.
Metadata Notation Units Concentrations Notation Units
Date, Time ‐ Chlorophyll‐a (fluoromery) Chl‐a mg m‐3
Station, Cruise ‐ Total chlorophyll‐a (HPLC) TChl‐a mg m‐3
File name, File_id (station) ‐ TSM TSM g m‐3
Latitude, longitude degrees Non algal particulate matter NAP g m‐3
Wind speed m s‐1 Particulate inorganic matter PIM g m‐3
Cloud cover ‐ Particulate organic matter POM g m‐3
Measurement depth m CDOM fluorescence CDOMf Qse
Secchi depth m
Water depth m Flags Notation Units
Photic depth Zp% m General flag Flag ‐
Mixed layer depth MLD m Location flag Location_flag ‐
Temperature °C Time flag Time_flag ‐
Salinity psu Chlorophyll‐a method Chla_flag ‐
Provider ‐ CoastColour Product CCP_flag ‐
IOPs Notation Units AOPs Notation Units
Total absorption coefficient a (λ) m‐1 Remote‐sensing reflectance Rrs (λ) sr‐1 Particles absorption coefficient ap (λ) m‐1 Water‐leaving reflectance RLw (λ) ‐ NAP absorption coefficient aNAP (λ) m‐1 Water‐leaving radiance (or Lw (λ) mW cm‐2 Absorption by phytoplankton aph (λ) m‐1 above‐water upwelling µm‐1 sr‐1
Absorption by detritus ad (λ) m‐1 radiance)
CDOM absorption coefficient ag (λ) m‐1 Above‐water downwelling Es (λ) mW cm‐2 Total (back)scattering coefficient b(b) (λ) m‐1 irradiance (or incident µm‐1 NAP scattering coefficient bNAP (λ) m‐1 irradiance) NAP backscattering coefficient bbNAP (λ) m‐1 Downwelling irradiance Ed (λ) mW cm‐2
Backscattering ratio bbp(λ)/bp(λ)‐ µm‐1
Total beam attenuation coefficient c (λ) m‐1 Diffuse attenuation of Ed Kd (λ) m‐1 Particles beam attenuation
coefficient
cp (λ) m‐1 Diffuse attenuation of PAR Kpar m‐1
Turbidity FNU,
FTU
