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Parameter: alpha
Short Description: alpha
Short Name: alpha
Official Name: alpha
Units: (mgC/chla/h)/(uE/m2/s)
No Data Value: nd
Description
light limited photosynthesis, calculated from curve, used in conjunction with irradiance measurements, a Southern Ocean Globec term, (mgC/chla/h)/(uE/m2/s)
change in the slope of the electron transport rate between July and September 2017; units represent the change in ETR (umol electrons m–2 s–1 ) over increasing values of PAR
Alpha = photosynthetic efficiency. A photosynthesis-irradiance (P-I) curve was generated using various photon flux densities from 0 – 700 uM photons m-2 s-1 for 200 seconds each, following a 200 second dark period to measure dark respiration rate. The maximum photosynthetic rate (Pmax), light saturation point (Ik), and photosynthetic efficiency (the initial slope of the P-I curve) (alpha) were determined from the P-I curves.