Geoscience Reference
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Table 6.2.
Published calibration methods for fluorescence sensors for various applications
Reference
Instrument
Deployment
Intensity calibration
Blank
subtraction
Temperature
correction
Environment
Coble et al. (1998)
Sea Tech, Yellow Matter
Meter
Profiling
QS, 0.45-μm filtered
samples
Yes
No
Arabian and Black
Seas
Chen (1999)
Sea Tech, Yellow Matter
Meter
Profiling
QS, discrete samples
No
No
San Diego Bay,
Boston Harbor
Del Castillo et al. (2001)
WET Labs, SAFIre
Flow-through
Gf/F filtered samples
No
Yes
West Florida Shelf
Breves and Reuter (2001)
TriOS, GmbH
Profiling
relative units
No
No
Arabian Sea
Esser and Volpe (2002)
Chelsea, AQUAtracka
Flow-through
QS
No
No
N. Pacific Surface
Water
Coble and Conmy (unpub.
2003)
WET Labs, WETStar
Towed undulating,
proiling
Gf/F filtered samples
No
Yes
NW Australian Shelf
Chen and Gardner (2004)
Sea Tech and Seapoint,
SUVF
Profiling, towed
Undulating
Gf/F filtered samples
No
No
Louisiana Bight
Conmy et al. (2004)
WET Labs, SAFIre
Profiling,
low-through
0.45-μm and Gf/F filtered
samples
No
Yes
MAB
, WFS
Conmy et al. (2004)
WET Labs, SAFIre
Flow-through
Gf/F filtered samples
No
Yes
Louisiana Bight
Etheridge and Roesler
(2004)
WET Labs, FlashPak
Time series
<0.2-μm, Gf/F filtered
samples
No
No
Long Island Sound
Gardner et al. (2005)
Seapoint, SUVF
Towed undulating
QS, Gf/F filtered samples
No
No
Boston Harbor
Belzile et al. (2006)
WET Labs, WETStar
Profiling
QS, discrete samples
Yes
No
East Siberian Sea
Belzile et al. (2006)
WET Labs, WETStar
Profiling
0.2-μm filtered samples
No
No
Beaufort Sea
Downing et al. (2009)
WET Labs, WETStar
Moored time series
QS, filtered flowpath
Yes
No
San Francisco Bay
Tedetti et al. (2010)
Conmy et al. (2014)
TriOS, EnviroFlu-HC
Chelsea, AQUATracka;
WET Labs, ECO;
Turner, Cyclops
Profiling
Rack mounted
in wave tank
0.2-μm filtered samples
Petroleum and water
samples
Yes
Yes
No
No
Mediterranean Sea
Wave tank
