Secchi Disc to Measure Turbidity (IMAGE) Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Caption One of the standardized measurements taken at all CARICOMP Caribbean monitoring sites is water turbidity, an ...
The Secchi Disk is a 12-inch black and white plate attached to a rope or chain and lowered into a body of water until it is no longer visible. The depth at which the disk can no longer be seen is ...
Angelo Secchi was an astrophysicist and a pioneer in the use of spectroscopy in that field and also contributed to meteorology and geodesy. His only contribution to oceanography was on the physics of ...