Effects of air-sea interaction parameters on ocean surface microwave emission at 10 and 37 GHz

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1763-1774

  Aziz, Mohammed A ^a,b   Reising, Steven C ^a,c   Gaiser, Peter W ^d   Asher, William E ^e   Rose, L Allen ^f   Horgan, Kevin A ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

^b Vensoft   (United States)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Air sea interactions; Fractional area foam coverage; Friction velocity; Heat flux; Microwave emissivity; Microwave radiometry; Momentum flux; Ocean surface; Ocean surface emissivity; Significant wave height; Wind speed

Indexed keywords

HEAT FLUX; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLARIMETERS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; FRACTIONAL AREA FOAM COVERAGE; FRICTIONAL VELOCITY; MICROWAVE EMISSIVITY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; MOMENTUM FLUX; OCEAN SURFACE; OCEAN SURFACE EMISSIVITY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; WIND SPEED;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 24944462278     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.848413     Document Type: Article

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