Characterization of light absorption by chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) in the upper layer of the Red Sea

The authors express their gratitude to the scientists, officers and crews of the research vessel Thuwal and the Coastal and Marine Resources Core Lab for logistical support and assistance onboard during the fieldwork. V. Vellucci, E. Organelli and E. Boss are cordially thanked for their advice and valuable discussions of the results presented here. We also thank David Antoine and Annick Bricaud for providing CDOM absorption data collected in the Mediterranean Sea (BOUSSOLE project, “BOUee pour l’acquiSition d’une Serie Optique a Long termE project”) and in the Pacific Ocean (BIOSOPE cruise, “Biogeochemistry and Optics South Pacific Experiment”), respectively. Robert Brewin and six anonymous reviewers are warmly thanked for their constructive comments on a previous version of the manuscript. Most of the figures presented here were drawn using Ocean Data View software (Schlitzer, R., Ocean Data View, http://odv.awi.de, 2012). This study is funded by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The data presented in this study are available from the authors upon request (malika.kheireddine@kaust.edu.sa). The data are archived at the Red Sea database (RSDB) (https://lthdatalib.kaust.edu.sa/rsdbUI/).

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