Airborne imagery of ocean mixed-layer convective patterns

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 435-441

  Marmorino, George O ^a   Smith, Geoffrey B ^a   Toporkov, Jakov V ^a   Sletten, Mark A ^a   Perkovic, Dragana ^b   Frasier, Stephen J ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Cool skin; Infrared imagery; Langmuir circulation; Remote sensing; Sea surface temperature; Surface mixed layer; Surfactant; Synthetic aperture radar; Thermal convection

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; HEAT CONVECTION; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; RADAR; RADAR ANTENNAS; RADAR IMAGING; REMOTE SENSING; SKIN; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TRACKING RADAR;

COOL SKIN; INFRARED IMAGERY; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE MIXED LAYER; SURFACTANT; THERMAL CONVECTION;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; LARGE EDDY SIMULATION; MIXED LAYER; SURFACTANT; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; THERMAL CONVECTION; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF STREAM;

EID: 58749100627     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2008.10.007     Document Type: Article

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