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A Preliminary Comparison of the Neon Lamp and Potentiometer Methods of Submarine Photo-Electric Photometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

W. R. G. Atkins  and
H. H. Poole
W. R. G. Atkins
Affiliation:
Head of the Department of General Physiology at the Plymouth Laboratory.
H. H. Poole
Affiliation:
Registrar of the Royal Dublin Society.
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1. J. H. J. Poole’s neon lamp method (1928) of integrating the photo-electric current is serviceable for work at sea down to moderate depths, which further experience may extend considerably. It is specially valuable for determining the light just above the water, and at such depths down to 5 m., at which the variability of the light renders the potentiometer method (1925) very difficult or quite impossible in rough water. For greater depths, down to 70 m. (bottom in the English Channel around our normal range) we have so far been able to use the latter only.

2. The loss due to the shadow of the ship, obtained by subtracting the illumination just above water from that on the deck-house roof, was found to vary from an extreme case of 52 per cent, and a normal loss of 30 per cent, with an overcast sky, down to 11 per cent with a clear sun at 31° altitude.

3. The loss of light due to its entering the water was found to vary from 7·5 to 16·5 per cent, mean 13·1 per cent.

4. It is desirable that the illumination just above and just below the water surface should be determined by the neon lamp method as a routine.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , October 1931 , pp. 617 - 631
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1931

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