Determination of the sea surface Salinity error budget in the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 48, Issue 4 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1684-1693

  Sabia, Roberto ^a,b   Camps, Adriano ^a,b   Talone, Marco ^a,b   Vall Llossera, Mercè ^a,b   Font, Jordi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b Passeig Maritim de la Barceloneta   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Error budget; Retrieval; Salinity; Soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS)

Indexed keywords

ERROR BUDGETS; ERROR SOURCES; EXTERNAL NOISE; INVERSION ALGORITHM; MULTISOURCES; OCEAN SALINITY; RELATIVE IMPACT; RETRIEVAL; SALINITY; SALINITY FIELDS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE SALINITY MAPS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; WIND SPEED DATA;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUDGET CONTROL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

ERROR ANALYSIS; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 77954413579     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2009.2034648     Document Type: Article

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