Horizontal Sea Surface Temperature Gradients: MODIS Satellite Observations versus Reynolds Analysis

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 954-956

  Yuan, Dongliang ^a,b   Savtchenko, Andrey K ^a,b  

^a EER System Inc   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Horizontal gradients; MODIS; Reynolds; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; RADIOMETERS; SEA LEVEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

HEAT BALANCE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

EID: 0242627533     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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