Remotely sensed seasonality in the spatial distribution of sea-surface suspended particulate matter in the southern North Sea

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 103-113

  Eleveld, Marieke A ^a   Pasterkamp, Reinold ^a   van der Woerd, Hendrik J ^a   Pietrzak, Julie D ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Case 2 water; North Sea; ocean colour; seston; total suspended matter (TSM); total suspended solids (TSS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; OCEAN COLOR; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; SEAWIFS; SESTON; TIME SERIES; WAVE ACTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 52149093424     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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