Ocean mixed-layer depth and current variation estimated from imagery of surfactant streaks

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 364-367

  Marmorino, George O ^b   Toporkov, Jakov V ^a,b   Smith, Geoffrey B ^b   Sletten, Mark A ^a,b   Perkovic, Dragana ^a,c   Frasier, Stephen ^a,c   Judd, K Peter ^b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Currents; Infrared (IR) imagery; Langmuir circulation; Ocean mixed layer; Surfactant; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; OCEAN MIXED LAYER;

LANGMUIR PROBES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

INFRARED IMAGING;

EID: 34547192647     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.895702     Document Type: Article

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