Fig. 8: High frequency environmental variability is evident in the raw data.
From: Emergent patterns of patchiness differ between physical and planktonic properties in the ocean
Here we show an example of variables along a single leg (a), showing data “spikes” that may initially be considered instrumental noise, but when inspecting the individual spectra from 408 nm to 730 nm (b and c), which are used to derive the various proxies, they are consistent with expectations for particulate absorption (ap) and attenuation (cp) data. The two bottom rows show a 30 minute subset of ap spectra (b) and cp spectra (c) representing the period between the vertical black lines in panel (a). Each spectra is the average of one minute of sampling, is colored by time (from brown to blue), and spans wavelengths from 410 nm to 750 nm. This transect is from the Coral Sea centered on 20.23 S, 152.90 E.
