Tropical water vapor correction for remotely sensed sea surface temperature: Results using narrowband window radiance profiles from TOGA COARE

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C6, 2001, Pages 11423-11436

  Hagan, Denise E ^a   Nalli, Nicholas R ^b,c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRECTION; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TOGA-COARE; WATER VAPOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034915374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000143     Document Type: Article

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