Deriving a sea surface temperature record suitable for climate change research from the along-track scanning radiometers

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-11

  Merchant, C J ^a   Llewellyn Jones, D ^b   Saunders, R W ^c   Rayner, N A ^c   Kent, E C ^d   Old, C P ^a   Berry, D ^d   Birks, A R ^e   Blackmore, T ^c   Corlett, G K ^b   Embury, O ^a   Jay, V L ^e   Kennedy, J ^c   Mutlow, C T ^e   Nightingale, T J ^e   O'Carroll, A G ^c   Pritchard, M J ^e   Remedios, J J ^b   Tett, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e RUTHERFORD APPLETON LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATSR; Climate change; Radiometers; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUDS; ERROR DETECTION; RADIOMETERS; TEMPERATURE;

ATSR; DATA SET; GLOBAL OCEANS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 36448950146     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.07.041     Document Type: Article

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