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Articles | Volume 13, issue 14
Articles | Volume 13, issue 14
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4081-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-4081-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 14
Research article
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18 Jul 2016
Research article |  | 18 Jul 2016

Methods to retrieve the complex refractive index of aquatic suspended particles: going beyond simple shapes

Albert-Miquel Sánchez and Jaume Piera

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In this paper, several methods for the retrieval of the refractive indices are used in three different examples modeling different shapes and particle size distributions. The error associated with each method is discussed and analyzed. It is finally demonstrated that those inverse methods using a genetic algorithm provide optimal estimations relative to other techniques that, although faster, are less accurate.
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