Aquarius/SAC-D ocean salinity mission science overview

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1675-1677

  Lagerloef, G S E ^a   Chao, Y ^b   Colomb, F Raul ^c  

^a EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; MAPPING; MICROWAVE MEASUREMENT; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SATELLITES; SEA ICE;

GLOBAL COVERAGE; OCEAN CIRCULATION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE (RMS) ACCURACY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 34948889914     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2006.433     Document Type: Conference Paper

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