Ocean retrievals for WindSat radiative transfer model, algorithm, validation

Proceedings of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud water; Ocean wind vector; Radiative transfer model; Sea surface temperature; Validation; Water vapor; WindSat

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER SATELLITES;

CLOUD WATER; OCEAN WIND VECTOR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION; WINDSAT;

RADIATIVE TRANSFER;

EID: 33947164911     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2005.1639750     Document Type: Conference Paper

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