CITATION:
Jonasz M., Boss E. 2006. Volume scattering function at the small angles (www.tpdsci.com/Tpc/VsfSmlAngNatDsp.php). In: Top. Part. Disp. Sci. (www.tpdsci.com).  

DATA:
courtesy of Y. C. Agrawal, Sequoia Scientific Inc., Bellevue, Washington, USA
Processed versions of these data are referred to as station 313, depth of ~6 m, summer 2001, in Agrawal Y. C. 2005. The optical volume scattering function: Temporal and vertical variability in the water column off the New Jersey coast. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50: 1787-1794.


RESULTS:
Log-normal fit to 0.079 to 13.3 deg (in water; 0.1 through 17.9 deg in air, as reported by Agrawal)
data for the volume scattering function (VSF):

VSF_fit = exp(a0 + a1 * ln(Theta) + a2 * ln(Theta)^2)

where

	---value---	----SD----
a0	+4.2890E+00	5.2033E-02
a1	-1.0689E+00	2.2524E-02
a2	-1.4571E-01	1.5950E-02

and Theta is the scattering angle in degrees.

---DATA---	---DATA---	-RESULTS-
Theta, deg	VSF, 1/(m sr)	VSF_fit, 1/(m sr) 
7.90E-02	5.07E+02	4.30E+02
9.32E-02	5.62E+02	4.06E+02
1.10E-01	5.17E+02	3.79E+02
1.30E-01	3.48E+02	3.52E+02
1.53E-01	2.65E+02	3.24E+02
1.81E-01	2.47E+02	2.96E+02
2.13E-01	1.91E+02	2.69E+02
2.52E-01	2.50E+02	2.41E+02
2.97E-01	1.63E+02	2.15E+02
3.50E-01	1.51E+02	1.91E+02
4.14E-01	1.27E+02	1.67E+02
4.88E-01	1.42E+02	1.46E+02
5.76E-01	1.09E+02	1.26E+02
6.80E-01	1.11E+02	1.08E+02
8.02E-01	8.79E+01	9.16E+01
9.46E-01	8.19E+01	7.73E+01
1.12E+00	6.59E+01	6.47E+01
1.32E+00	5.70E+01	5.37E+01
1.55E+00	4.75E+01	4.42E+01
1.83E+00	4.07E+01	3.61E+01
2.17E+00	3.27E+01	2.93E+01
2.55E+00	2.67E+01	2.35E+01
3.01E+00	2.16E+01	1.88E+01
3.56E+00	1.73E+01	1.49E+01
4.20E+00	1.38E+01	1.17E+01
4.95E+00	1.07E+01	9.08E+00
5.84E+00	8.26E+00	7.02E+00
6.89E+00	6.08E+00	5.39E+00
8.12E+00	4.47E+00	4.10E+00
9.57E+00	2.97E+00	3.10E+00
1.13E+01	1.85E+00	2.32E+00
1.33E+01	1.02E+00	1.73E+00