Potential use of microwave sea surface temperatures for the estimation of ocean currents

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2006, Pages

  Isern Fontanet, J ^a   Chapron, B ^a   Lapeyre, G ^b   Klein, P ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; KINETIC ENERGY; MICROWAVE DEVICES; RADIOMETERS;

SATELLITE MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS; SEQUENTIAL TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE QUASI-GEOSTROPHIC (SQG) THEORY;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; OCEANIC CURRENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34548021436     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL027801     Document Type: Article

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