The impact of satellite retrievals in a global sea-surface-temperature analysis

Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Volumn 134, Issue 636, 2008, Pages 1745-1760

  Brasnett, Bruce ^a  

^a ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Infrared retrievals; Microwave retrievals; Satellite bias; Statistical interpolation

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; ERRORS; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVES; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SATELLITES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE WATERS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

BUOY OBSERVATIONS; GLOBAL GRIDS; IN-SITU; INFRARED RETRIEVALS; INFRARED SENSORS; MICROWAVE DATUMS; MICROWAVE RETRIEVALS; SATELLITE DATUMS; SATELLITE RETRIEVALS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATION; STATISTICAL INTERPOLATIONS; TEMPERATURE ANALYSIS; TWO SOURCES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERPOLATION; MICROWAVE IMAGERY; QUALITY CONTROL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349166907     PISSN: 00359009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/qj.319     Document Type: Article

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