SHANDONG SCIENCE ›› 2017, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (3): 8-11.doi: 10.3976/j.issn.1002-4026.2017.03.002

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The influence factors of fluorescence determination of chlorophyll a and the data correction for them

ZHANG Li,GUO Cui-lian, ZHANG Shu-wei, WU Ning, WANG Xiao-hong, ZHANG Tian-peng, WANG Zhao-yu   

  1. Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation, Shandong Academy of Sciences, Qingdao 266001, China
  • Received:2016-11-22 Online:2017-06-20 Published:2017-06-20

Abstract:

The impacts of turbidity and temperature on the determination of chlorophyll a in the sea water with field fluorescence method were studied in this paper. The chlorophyll a concentration of Chlorella vulgaris at different temperature and turbidity gradients was determined by visible spectrophotometer and the field fluorescence respectively, to explore the influence rule and the method for correction. Results reveal that temperature has no significant effects on the concentration of chlorophyll a in the range of 7 ~ 30 ℃, while turbidity has significant influence on the determination of chlorophyll a in the range of 0 ~ 1 000 NTU, which should be modified by the following method: The true value equals to measured value minus 0.017 4 times’ turbidity value (NTU).

Key words: turbidity, chlorophyll a, temperature, fluorescence

CLC Number: 

  • P714