Estimation of Air-Sea Gas Transfer Velocities from Apparent Microwave Brightness Temperature

Marine Technology Society Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 32-40

  Asher, William ^a   Wang, Qin ^b   Monahan, Edward C ^b   Smith, Peter M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; WATER WAVES;

AIR-SEA GAS TRANSFER; MICROWAVE BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAS EXCHANGE; RADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE;

EID: 0032105350     PISSN: 00253324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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