A cloud-free, satellite-derived, sea surface temperature analysis for the West Florida Shelf

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 15, 2003, Pages

  He, Ruoying ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Zhang, Haiying ^a   Muller Karger, Frank E ^a   Helber, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; INTERPOLATION; RAIN; SATELLITES; ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); REGIONAL PLANNING; REYNOLDS EQUATION; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; SHELF CIRCULATION; SPATIAL GRADIENTS; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; TROPICAL RAINFALL MEASURING MISSION MICROWAVE IMAGER (TMI);

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AVHRR; CLOUD; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

FLORIDA SHELF; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0242337448     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017673     Document Type: Article

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