Infrared techniques for measuring ocean surface processes

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 307-326

  Veron, Fabrice ^a   Melville, W Kendall ^b   Lenain, Luc ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CERIUM; CORRELATION METHODS; EXPERIMENTS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; FLOW VISUALIZATION; KINEMATICS; MEASUREMENTS; MECHANICS; METEOROLOGY; RESEARCH; SPEED; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE PHENOMENA; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES; THEOREM PROVING; VELOCIMETERS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; (I ,J) CONDITIONS; AIR-SEA FLUXES; AIR-SEA INTERACTIONS; AIR-SEA INTERFACE; AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY (AMS); CLIMATE STUDIES; CROSS CORRELATIONS; DEPLOYENT; DETAILED STUDY; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; GENERAL (CO); INFRARED (IR); KINEMATIC DATA; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER (MBL); MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; OCEAN SURFACE TEMPERATURE; OCEAN SURFACES; PARTICLE-IMAGE VELOCIMETRY (PIV); PASSIVE INFRARED (PIR); RESEARCH PLATFORMS; SURFACE VELOCITIES; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES; TRANSFER VELOCITY; VELOCITY FIELDS;

SURFACE TESTING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALTIMETRY; CORRELATION; HEAT TRANSFER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; KINEMATICS; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE FLUX;

EID: 45249106566     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2007JTECHO524.1     Document Type: Article

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