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A simple portable field nephelometer
Author(s) -
MOORE W. H.
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
freshwater biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.297
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1365-2427
pISSN - 0046-5070
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2427.1972.tb00057.x
Subject(s) - nephelometer , metre , environmental science , field (mathematics) , remote sensing , optics , materials science , physics , geology , light scattering , mathematics , scattering , astronomy , pure mathematics
Summary A portable field nephelometer is described, capable of indicating in situ differing layers of suspended material in a body of water to a depth of 30 m. Results were compared with those from a standard transparency meter, and a laboratory nephelo‐meter.