Wintertime wind forcing and sea surface cooling near the South India tip observed using NSCAT and AVHRR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-64

  Luis, Alvarinho J ^a   Kawamura, Hiroshi ^a,b  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; HEAT FLUX; HEAT LOSSES; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITES; THERMAL GRADIENTS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND STRESS;

MONSOONS; SCATTEROMETERS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

REMOTE SENSING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; AVHRR; COOLING; SCATTEROMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND FORCING;

INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 0033939758     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(00)00081-X     Document Type: Article

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