The Aquarius/SAC-D mission: Designed to meet the salinity remote-sensing challenge

Oceanography

Volumn 21, Issue SPL.ISS. 1, 2008, Pages 68-81

  Lagerloef, Gary ^a   Raul Colomb, F ^b   le Vine, David ^c   Wentz, Frank ^d   Yueh, Simon ^e   Ruf, Christopher ^f   Lilly, Jonathan ^a   Gunn, John ^a   Chao, Yi ^e   deCharon, Annette ^g   Feldman, Gene ^c   Swift, Calvin ^h  

^a EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Facultad de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales   (Argentina)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^h University of Massachusetts   (United States)

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EID: 51849096134     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2008.68     Document Type: Article

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