Apparent Optical Properties DOORS cruise 3, 01-20 June, 2024

Apparent Optical Properties of seawater determined from multispectral free-fall system (MicroPro, Satalantic Inc) during R/V Mare Nigrum cruise #3 at 11 stations mostly located in Georgian coastal Black Sea waters . The MicroPro simultaneously measure the upwelling radiance Lu (z, λ), the downward irradiance Ed (z, λ) and the upward irradiance Eu (z, λ) as a function of depth z and wavelength λ, in addition to the above–water downward irradiance Ed (0+λ). All applied sensors (i.e., radiometers of the OCR-507) have equivalent spectral channels with 10 nm bandwidth centered at the nominal wavelengths 412, 443, 490, 510, 555, 665, and 683 nm. Data products from the free-fall optical profilers include spectral values of: remote sensing reflectance and diffuse attenuation coefficient.