Source

Location

Z-LWC Relation

Atlas (1954)

Sauvegeot and Omar (1987)

Fox and Illingworth (1997)

Massachusetts, USA

Pyrenees, France

The North Atlantic

$Z=0.048LW{C}^{2.0}$

$Z=0.03LW{C}^{1.31}$

$Z=0.012LW{C}^{1.16}$

Present Study

2011

2012

Combined 2-years of study

Akure, Nigeria

Akure, Nigeria

$Z=0.024LW{C}^{1.19}$

$Z=0.035LW{C}^{1.35}$

$Z=0.041LW{C}^{1.64}$