Impact of the Atmospheric Transmittance and Total Water Vapor Content in the Algorithms for Estimating Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 946-952

  Sobrino, José A ^a   Li, Zhao Liang ^a   Stoll, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERICS; DENSITY OF GASES; INTEGRATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SATELLITES; SEAWATER; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ATMOSPHERIC TRANSMITTANCE; CLIMATE MONITORING; OPTICAL PATHLENGTH; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPLIT WINDOW FORMULATION; WATER VAPOR CONTENT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0027668360     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.263765     Document Type: Article

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