Overview of the NOAA/NASA advanced very high resolution radiometer Pathfinder algorithm for sea surface temperature and associated matchup database

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C5, 2001, Pages 9179-9197

  Kilpatrick, K A ^a   Podesta G P ^a   Evans, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AVHRR; DATA PROCESSING; NOAA SATELLITE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0034944665     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999jc000065     Document Type: Review

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