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Secchi disk measurements have been an integral component of Minnesota's lake water quality assessment programs for some time ; lake residents make periodic measurements and submit their readings to state and local agencies.
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* 1865 – Astronomer Pietro Angelo Secchi demonstrates the Secchi disk, which measures water clarity, aboard Pope Pius IX's yacht, the L ’ Immaculata Concezion.
The transparency of the water, which determines the depth of the photic zone, is measured simply with a Secchi disk.
Secchi disk clarity readings have consistently been in the high-20 meter to mid-30 meter ( 80 – 115 ft ) range, which is very clear for any natural body of water.
Turbidity in lakes, reservoirs, channels, and the ocean can be measured using a Secchi disk.
This black and white disk is lowered into the water until it can no longer be seen ; the depth ( Secchi depth ) is then recorded as a measure of the transparency of the water ( inversely related to turbidity ).
The Secchi disk has the advantages of integrating turbidity over depth ( where variable turbidity layers are present ), being quick and easy to use, and inexpensive.
It can provide a rough indication of the depth of the euphotic zone with a 3-fold division of the Secchi depth, however this cannot be used in shallow waters where the disk can still be seen on the bottom.
The Turbidity tube condenses water in a graded tube which allows determination of turbidity based on a contrast disk in its bottom, being analog to the Secchi disk.
Secchi disk pattern
The Secchi disk, created in 1865 by Pietro Angelo Secchi SJ, is a circular disk used to measure water transparency in oceans and lakes.
George C. Whipple modified the original all-white Secchi disk to “… a disc about 8 inches in diameter, divided into quadrants painted alternately black and white like the target of a level-rod …” The black and white Secchi disk is the standard disk currently used in limnology investigations and marine water quality studies.
This depth in metres divided into 1. 7 yields an attenuation coefficient ( also called an extinction coefficient ), for the available light averaged over the Secchi disk depth.
Secchi disk readings do not provide an exact measure of transparency, as there can be errors due to the sun's glare on the water, or one person may see the disk at one depth, but another, with better eyesight, may see it at a greater depth.
However a Secchi disk is an inexpensive and straightforward method of measuring water clarity.
Secchi and measurements
The same observer should take Secchi depth measurements in the same manner every time.
Secchi disk measurements do not indicate how attenuation changes with depth or particular wavelengths of light.
Secchi and have
Carbon stars have quite distinctive spectral characteristics, and they were first recognized by their spectra by Angelo Secchi in the 1860s, a pioneering time in astronomical spectroscopy.
Secchi and been
Secchi commented that it " seems to play the role of the Atlantic which, on Earth, separates the Old Continent from the New " — this was the first time the fateful canale, which in Italian can mean either " channel " or " canal ", had been applied to Mars.
Secchi and lake
* Lake Auman participated in the Great North American Secchi Dip-In in 2001. the report basically said Lake Auman was the clearest lake south of the Great Lakes, east of the Rockies and north of Silver Springs Florida.
Secchi and water
Dutch researchers from the German Alfred Wegener Institute, on finding a Secchi disc visible at a depth of 262 feet on October 13, 1986, ascertained that the clarity corresponded to that of distilled water.
This measure is known as the Secchi depth and is related to water turbidity.
The Secchi depth is reached when the reflectance equals the intensity of light backscattered from the water.
Measurements commonly made on-site and in direct contact with the water source in question include temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, conductivity, oxygen reduction potential ( ORP ), turbidity, and Secchi disk depth.
He invented the Secchi disk, which is used to measure water transparency in oceans and lakes.
Secchi also performed related technical works for the Papal government, such as overseeing placement of sundials and repair or installation of municipal water systems.
Secchi and for
This work was shown to the astronomer Angelo Secchi who extended it, but with some question as to whether Henry was given proper credit for his earlier work.
The first person to use the word canale in connection with Mars was Angelo Secchi in 1858, although he did not see any straight lines and applied the term to large features — for example, he used the name " Atlantic Canale " for what later came to be called Syrtis Major Planum.
Carbon stars were discovered already in the 1860s when spectral classification pioneer Pater Angelo Secchi erected the Secchi class IV for the carbon stars, which in the late 1890s were reclassified as N class stars.
Secchi spent the next two years in the United Kingdom at Stonyhurst College, and the United States, where he taught for a time at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.
Secchi protested vigorously, and threatened to leave the Observatory for one of several positions offered to him by foreign observatories.
Thus, for example the " Kaiser Sea " is the modern-day Syrtis Major Planum, and " Secchi Continent " is Tharsis.
Montes Secchi ( latin for " Secchi Mountains ") is minor range of lunar mountains that located near the northwestern edge of Mare Fecunditatis.
Secchi and ;
* La fanciulla delle Asturie ( B. Secchi ; 1856 )
Secchi and .
The science of stellar spectroscopy was pioneered by Joseph von Fraunhofer and Angelo Secchi.
In 1865 Secchi began classifying stars into spectral types.
During the 1860s and 1870s, pioneering stellar spectroscopist Father Angelo Secchi created the Secchi classes in order to classify observed spectra.
* June 18 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer ( d. 1878 )
* February 26 – Angelo Secchi, Italian astronomer ( b. 1818 )
* 1862 – By analysing the spectroscopic signature of the Sun and comparing it to those of other stars, Father Angelo Secchi determines that the Sun is itself a star.
The year 2010 had a low average Secchi depth, with the depth of 64. 4 feet being the second lowest ever recorded ( the lowest was 64. 1 feet in 1997 ).
24 Themis was discovered on 5 April 1853 by Annibale de Gasparis of Naples, though it was given its name by fellow Italian astronomer Angelo Secchi.
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