... Particulate backscattering Total particulate organic carbon (POC) in aquatic marine systems refers to both the living and non-living organic carbon associated with particles that can be separated from dissolved forms, typically through filtration techniques, and has been shown to vary in accordance...

... that χ p varies in different waters but can be assumed to be spectrally invariant ( Zhang et al., 2021a ). In practice, constant globally representative values are often used ( Sullivan et al., 2013 ; Schmechtig et al., 2015 ). Measurements in this work are reported in units of particulate backscatter...