NOAA's sea surface temperature products from operational geostationary satellites

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1877-1888

  Maturi, Eileen ^a   Harris, Andy ^b   Merchant, Chris ^c   Mittaz, Jon ^b   Potash, Bob ^d   Meng, Wen ^d   Sapper, John ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d QSS GROUP INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; INFORMATION SERVICES; SEAWATER; SECURITY OF DATA; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

CLIMATIC REGIONS; DATA FILES; ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; LEVEL 2; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MID-LATITUDES; POLAR-ORBITING; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL COVERAGES; USER COMMUNITIES;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

EID: 60849094068     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2528.1     Document Type: Article

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