Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Colored and Chromophoric Dissolved
Organic Matter in Natural Waters
Khan M. G. Mostofa, Cong-qiang Liu, Davide Vione, M. Abdul Mottaleb,
Hiroshi Ogawa, Shafi M. Tareq and Takahito Yoshioka
1 Introduction
Chromophoric and colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is the opitically
active components of bulk dissolved organic matter (DOM) composing of a com-
plex mixture of organic compounds of both allochthonous and autochthonous ori-
gin, which absorb light at both ultraviolet (UV) and visible wavelengths (Bricaud
et al.
1981
; Arrigo and Brown
1996
; Nelson et al.
1998
; Nelson et al.
2004
;
Warnock et al.
1999
; Nelson and Siegel
2002
; Vähätalo and Wetzel
2004
; Coble
2007
; Zhang et al.
2009
; Mostofa et al.
2009
). Allochthonous organic substances
