Optimizing $σ0$ Information from the jason-2 altimeter

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 398-402

  Quartly, Graham D ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altimeter; Data quality; Jason 2; Reprocessing; Retracking; Sigma0

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; DATA QUALITY; JASON-2; REPROCESSING; RETRACKING; SIGMA0;

MARINE APPLICATIONS; RAIN; WIND STRESS;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 67651174326     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2009.2013973     Document Type: Article

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