Issues about retrieving sea surface salinity in coastal areas from SMOS data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2061-2072

  Zine, Sonia ^a   Boulin, Jacqueline ^a   Waldteufel, Philippe ^b   Vergely, Jean Luc ^c   Pellarin, Thierry ^d   Lazure, Pascal ^e  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c ACR1 ST   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^e IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Coastal areas; L band radiometry; Sea surface salinity (SSS) retrieval; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

COASTLINE ORIENTATION; GEOPHYSICAL PARAMETERS; RIVER PLUMES; SEA SURFACE SALINITY (SSS); SWATH ORIENTATION;

COASTAL ZONES;

EID: 34347221144     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2007.894934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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