Instrument for measuring volume absorption coefficients of horizontally stratified water

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A PROBE FOR SENSING UPWELLING, A DOWNWELLING, AND SCALAR IRRADIANCE PARAMETERS WITHIN A PREDETERMINED ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIUM COMPRISING IN COMBINATION, A TRIO OF WATERTIGHT, HOLLLOW, THIN-WALLED, TUBULAR ARMS INTERCONNECTED SO THEIR LONGITUDINAL AXES OF REVOLUTION MEET AT A COMMON JUNCTION, A SCALAR IRRADIANCE COLLECTOR WITH A SUBSTANTIALLY SPHERICAL TRANSLUCENT EXTERNAL RADIANT ENERGY COLLECTING SURFACE ATTACHED TO ONE OF SAID ARMS, A FIRST DISC COLLECTOR WITH A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT TRANSLUCENT RADIANT ENERGY COLLECTING SURFACE FACING IN AN UPWARDLY DIRECTION ATTACHED TO ANOTHER OF SAID ARMS, A SECOND DISC COLLECTOR WITH A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT TRANSLUCENT RADIANT ENERGY COLLECTING SURFACE FACING IN A DOWNWARDLY DIRECTION ATTACHED TO THE REMAINING ONE OF SAID ARMS, SAID SCALAR COLLECTOR HAVING A CENTER THAT IS LOCATED IN A PLANE COMMON TO THE TRANSLUCENT FLAT SURFACES OF SAID DISC COLLECTORS AND THE COMMON JUNCTION OF THE LONGITUDINAL AXES OF REVOLUTION OF SAID INTERCONNECTING ARMS, MEANS CONTIGUOUSLY DISPOSED WITH THE AFORESID COMMON JUNCTION FOR GENERATING ELECTRICAL OUTPUT SIGNALS IN RESPONSE TO RECEIVED RADIANT ENERGY AND IN PROPORTION TO THE INTENSITY THEREOF, AND MEANS DISPOSED WITHIN SAID ARMS FOR SEQUENTLY SAMPLING THE RADIANT ENERGY COLLECTED BY EACH OF SAID IRRADIANE COLLECTORS AND TRANSMITTING SAME TO THE AFORESAID ELECTRICAL OUTPUT SIGNAL GENERATING MEANS IN ACCORDANCE WITH A PREDETERMINED SAMPLING FREQUENCY.