Structured Sun glitter recorded in an ASTER along-track stereo image of Nam Co Lake (Tibet): An interpretation based on supercritical flow over a lake floor depression

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Matthews, John P ^a,b   Yang, X D ^c   Shen, J ^c   Awaji, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Environmental Satellite Applications   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; LAKES; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY; WAKES;

ASTER; REMOTE SENSING; STEREO IMAGE; STRATIFIED FLOW; SUPERCRITICAL FLOW; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; NAM CO; XIZANG;

EID: 42049088277     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004204     Document Type: Article

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