Assessment and inter-comparison of five high-resolution sea surface temperature products in the shelf and coastal seas around China

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 28, Issue 10-11, 2008, Pages 1286-1293

  Xie, Jiping ^a,c   Zhu, Jiang ^a   Li, Yan ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL FORECASTING CENTER   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Coastal sea; Different spread; GHRSST; RMSD

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COASTAL WATER; COASTAL ZONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; FORECASTING METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 44449142514     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2008.02.020     Document Type: Article

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