Remote sensing of Southern Ocean sea surface temperature: Implications for marine biophysical models

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 161-173

  Sumner, Michael D ^a   Michael, Kelvin J ^a   Bradshaw, Corey J A ^a   Hindell, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; GRADING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

REMOTE SENSING;

AVHRR; BIOPHYSICS; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0037299034     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00103-7     Document Type: Article

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