Removing the impact of wind direction on remote sensing of sea surface salinity

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1368-1373

  Yin, Xiaobin ^a   Liu, Yuguang ^a   Zhang, Hande ^b  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China   (China)

Author keywords

Brightness temperature; Remote sensing; Sea surface salinity; Sea surface temperature; Wind direction

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748950115     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11434-006-1368-x     Document Type: Article

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