Atmospheric front over the East China Sea studied by multisensor satellite and in situ data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Ivanov, Andrei Y ^a,b   Alpers, Werner ^b,c   Litovchenko, Konstantin T ^b,d   He, Ming Xia ^b   Feng, Qian ^b   Fang, Mingqiang ^b   Yan, Xiao Hai ^b,e  

^a SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d Info Automated Mgmt Syst of Fish   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Front; Remote sensing; SAR

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FRONT;

EAST CHINA SEA; OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; WORLD;

EID: 14744283259     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002432     Document Type: Article

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