Sea surface temperature estimation from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-12 (GOES-12)

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 570-581

  Merchant, Chris J ^a   Harris, A R ^b   Maturi, F ^b   Embury, O ^a   MacCullum, S N ^a   Mittaz, J ^b   Old, C P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC SCATTERINGS; BAYESIAN METHODS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CLOUD DETECTIONS; FAST FORWARDS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION'S; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTIONS; OCEAN SURFACES; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SATELLITE DATA PROCESSING; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMULATION STUDIES; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; SPLIT WINDOWS; TECHNIQUES USED; VALIDATION RESULTS;

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER; SOLAR ENERGY; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHM; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; GOES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 65549140242     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO596.1     Document Type: Article

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