Impacts of in situ and additional satellite data on the accuracy of a sea-surface temperature analysis for climate

International Journal of Climatology

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 857-864

  Reynolds, Richard W ^a   Zhang, Huai Min ^a   Smith, Thomas M ^a   Gentemann, Chelle L ^b   Wentz, Frank ^b  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

AVHRR; Buoy; Optimum interpolation; Satellite; SST; TMI

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; MICROWAVES; RADIOMETERS; SURFACES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

INFRARED SATELLITES; MICROWAVE IMAGER; OPTIMUM INTERPOLATION (OI); SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

CLIMATOLOGY;

SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 21344437254     PISSN: 08998418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/joc.1168     Document Type: Article

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