CITATION:
Jonasz M. 2007. Absorption coefficient of water: Data sources (www.tpdsci.com/Tpc/AbsCfWatDat.php). In: Top. Part. Disp. Sci. (www.tpdsci.com).  

DATA OF:
James H. R., Birge E. A. 1938. A laboratory study of the absorption of light by lake waters. Trans. Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts. Lett. 31, 1-154.





NOTES
All DATA have been obtained by the data authors for the following conditions:
water - distillation with a tin still
temperature - unspecified
method - two-path transmission (silver-lined brass cell). It seems that the absorption coefficient they measured contains an unspecified contribution from light scattering.

Data have been rescaled by Jonasz M. to wavelength in µm.
The data for the wavelength of 0.565 µm are referred (by error?) to 0.465 µm in the James HR and Birge (1938) paper.





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DATA	DATA
wave-	absorption
length	coefficient
[um]	[1/m]

0.3650	3.70E-02
0.4078	1.00E-02
0.4359	7.90E-03
0.4480	7.30E-03
0.4730	5.00E-03
0.5000	7.50E-03
0.5040	1.00E-02
0.5250	1.80E-02
0.5300	2.70E-02
0.5370	2.80E-02
0.5460	3.90E-02
0.5650	4.30E-02
0.5685	4.70E-02
0.5700	5.00E-02
0.5750	5.00E-02
0.5800	7.80E-02
0.5840	1.00E-01
0.5970	1.96E-01
0.6125	2.54E-01
0.6300	2.87E-01
0.6480	3.28E-01
0.6680	4.00E-01
0.6850	4.78E-01
0.7000	5.98E-01
0.7200	1.04E+00
0.7400	2.16E+00
0.7600	2.45E+00
0.7800	2.32E+00
0.8000	2.20E+00