Remote sensing of ocean salinity: Results from the Delaware coastal current experiment

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1478-1484

  Le Vine, D M ^a   Kao, M ^a   Garvine, R W ^b   Sanders, T ^b  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; COASTAL CURRENT; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032942085     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0426(1998)015<1478:RSOOSR>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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