Towards a coherent sea surface salinity product from SMOS radiometric measurements and ARGO buoys

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3959-3962

  Talone, M ^a   Camps, A ^a   Sabia, R ^a   Font, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

ARGO; Auxiliary data; Microwave radiometry; Sea surface salinity; SMOS

Indexed keywords

ARGO; AUXILIARY DATA; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SMOS;

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 37249034686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2007.4423715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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