On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:28, Jonathan Gregory wrote:
> Ah, I see. In that case it must be talking about moles of photons, I
> suppose, and there must be an assumed frequency for conversion to radiative
> flux. I don't think we can call a quantity in mol/m2/s a plain
> "radiative_flux", and "radiation" is too vague. Is there any other
> conventional name for a radiative flux expressed as a flux of photons?
I've seen it described as a "photosynthetic photon flux density" a few times
in the literature. Sounds awkward to me, but I'll gladly accept it.
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John Evans
johnevans at acm.org
Received on Wed Aug 06 2003 - 11:20:42 BST
