中肋骨条藻和东海原甲藻的散射特性

浮游藻类是海水中的重要组成成分,对其固有光学特性的研究有助于深入了解水体光学的辐射传输。在过去的30年中,大量的研究都集中在藻类吸收特性上,缺少对其散射特性的认识。本文利用分光光度计设计了在实验室中测量含颗粒水体散射和后向散射特性的方法,并利用标准球形颗粒对该方法的可行性进行验证,结果表明,在400～700nm范围内,散射测量结果与理论值的一致性较好,最大误差小于3%,而后向散射测量结果在蓝紫光处的一致性较好,在近红外波段处有一定误差。运用这两种测量方法对东中国海常见的赤潮藻种中肋骨条藻Skeletonema costatum和东海原甲藻Prorocentrum donghaiense进行测量,结果显示:中肋骨条藻与东海原甲藻的散射系数幅值相近但谱形差异较大,前者随波长增加散射强度递减,后者则相反;在色素吸收较强的波段,两者散射强度均出现与其它波长位置变化趋势相反的情况,这主要是受细胞物质物理性质的影响。两者的后向散射差异较小,但可以看出其谱形受色素吸收的影响很大,在幅值上,东海原甲藻略高于中肋骨条藻,在550nm处分别为0.001 74,0.001 43m2/mg(以藻类叶绿素a浓度归一化),后向散射概率分别为1.104%和0.723%。

Comparison study of several underwater light scattering phase functions

Scattering phase function is assumed to be one of the most significant factors in the inherent optical properties （lOPs） of natural water. According to three criteria proposed for assessment, several commonly used empirical phase functions are compared with their related practical or theoretical scattering distributions in terms of fitting errors under the circumstances of typical seawater and single-component polydisperse systems. The optimal factors corresponding to the minimum fitting errors are also calculated. It is found that both the one-term Henyey-Greenstein （OTHG） and two-term Henyey-Greenstein （TTHG） phase functions agree well with the theoretical ones for small particles, while the Fouriner-Forand （FF） phase function can be used in the case of suspensions with large suspended particles. The fitting accuracy of OTHG is the worst, FF is better and TTHG is the best.