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Penetration of solar UVB radiation in shallow tropical waters and its potential biological effects on coral reefs; results from the central Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea
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This paper presents the first complete data of global downwelling irradiance (Ed) and the diffuse attenuation coefficient (K,,) for solar ultraviolet-B (UVB; 280 to 320 nm) in tropical waters.The penetration of solar UVB into shallow (0 to 5 m) seawater a t 3 sites in the central Indian Ocean and Andaman Sea, adjacent to areas of coral reefs. 1 t .d ~ studied using a semi-submersible scanning spectroradiometer.Downwelling global spectral irradiance (E,) w ~i s measured at 2 nm intervals over the wavebands 280-320 nm (UVB), 320-400 nm (U\-:\) and 400-700 n m (PAR) above the sea surface (O* m) and at each of 5 depths (1, 2, 3. 4, and 5 m).The 3 sltes consisted of a n ocean atoll in the Maldives (central Indian Ocean), a small (8 km') high island 11 km off the continental coastline at Phuket, Thailand (Andaman Sea), and a n inshore reef at Phuket.E, at each of the depths was integrated over the wavebands as a percentage of the above-watcr irradiance.E,(UVB) at 5 m depth was found to decrease to 12"& of incident ~rradiancye at the mid-occan atoll, to 2 % for the high island site, and to 0.4 %) in the turbid waters of the inshore reef.A 1 'X, Ed(UVB) depth was computed for each site and found to be 11, 6, and 3 m respectively.The diffuse attenuation for downwelling irradiance (Kd) for the depth range 0-m (just below the surface) to 5 m showed a very rapid attenuation with decreasing ~vavelength in the UVB at all sites.Biological damage potential, as weighted by the DNA-damage action spectrum, showed a more rapid attenuation with depth than Ed(UVB), w ~t h a 1 % EDN, depth of 9 m for the ocean atoll, 4.7 m for the coastal island, and 2.6 m for the inshore reef.
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- Authors
- Dunne, R., & Brown, B.
- Affiliations
- Newcastle University (GB)
- Venue
- Marine Ecology Progress Series
- Publisher
- Inter-Research Science Center
- Published
- 1996
- Volume
- 144
- Pages
- 109-118
- ISSN
- 0171-8630 (ISSN-L)
- 1616-1599
- OpenAlex
- W1999428677
- Cited by
- 105
- References
- 15
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- FWCI
- 2.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Marine Ecology Progress Series (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine Plankton and Biogeochemistry
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Earth-Surface Processes › Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Keywords
- diffuse attenuation coefficient, downwelling irradiance, coral reefs, DNA damage, action spectrum, coral bleaching, Central Indian Ocean, Andaman Sea, Phuket, turbidity
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