The possibilities of chlorophyll a (Chl a) and total suspended matter (TSM) retrieval using Sentinel-2/MSI imagery and in situ measurements in the Gorky Reservoir are investigated. This water body is an inland freshwater ecosystem within the territory of the Russian Federation. During the algal bloom period, the optical properties of water are extremely heterogeneous and vary on scales of tens of meters. Additionally, they vary in time under the influence of currents and wind forcing. In this case, the usage of the traditional station-based sampling to describe the state of the reservoir may be uninformative and not rational. Therefore, we proposed an original approach based on simultaneous in situ measurements of the remote sensing reflectance by a single radiometer and the concentration of water constituents by an ultraviolet fluorescence LiDAR from a high-speed gliding motorboat. This approach provided fast data collection including 4087 synchronized LiDAR and radiometric measurements with high spatial resolutions of 8 m for two hours. A part of the dataset was coincided with Sentinel-2 overpass and used for the development of regional algorithms for the retrieval of Chl a and TSM concentrations. For inland waters of the Russian Federation, such research was performed for the first time. The proposed algorithms can be used for regular environmental monitoring of the Gorky Reservoir using ship measurements or Sentinel-2 images. Additionally, they can be adapted for neighboring reservoirs, for example, for other seven reservoirs on the Volga River. Moreover, the proposed ship measurement approach can be useful in the practice of limnological monitoring of inland freshwater ecosystems with high spatiotemporal variability of the optical properties.

The influence of free-stream turbulence on the distributions of CH and OH radicals is studied with the use of optical methods of measurements in focused beams. The data on CH concentration are obtained for the minimum level of turbulence, and the OH concentration profiles are obtained for three levels of velocity fluctuations: 1, 8, and 18%. It is shown that the regions where the OH and CH radicals are observed in the laminar boundary layer are shifted from the temperature maximum toward the oxidizer zone and toward the fuel zone, respectively. The highest level of the OH concentration is close to values typical of hydrogen combustion. The root-meansquare fluctuations of velocity and the mean values of the OH concentration vary nonmonotonically along the flame.

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