Impact on sea surface salinity retrieval of different auxiliary data within the SMOS mission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2769-2778

  Sabia, Roberto ^a   Camps, Adriano ^a   Vall llossera, Mercè ^a   Reul, Nicolas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Auxiliary data; Microwave radiometry; Sea salinity; Spatiotemporal averaging

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY DATA; AUXILIARY PARAMETERS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEA SALINITY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SPATIO-TEMPORAL AVERAGING; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; SOIL MOISTURE; TEMPERATURE;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 34347233892     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.879108     Document Type: Article

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