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As such, above-water radiometry might enhance monitoring of suspended particulate matter (SPM) dynamics in inland waters. However, it has been barely applied for continuous monitoring, especially under partially cloudy sky conditions. In this study, an in situ, high-frequency (30 s timestep), above-water radiometric dataset, collected over 18 days in a tropical reservoir, is analyzed for the purpose of continuous monitoring of SPM concentration. Different modalities to retrieve reflectance spectra, as well as SPM inversion algorithms, were applied and evaluated. We propose a sequence of processing that achieved an average unsigned percent difference (UPD) of 10.4% during cloudy conditions and 4.6% during clear-sky conditions for Rrs (665 nm), compared to the respective UPD values of 88.23% and 13.17% when using a simple calculation approach. SPM retrieval methods were also evaluated and, depending on the methods used, we show that the coefficient of variation (CV) of the SPM concentration varied from 69.5% down to 2.7% when using a semi-analytical approach. 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