Estimation of Sea Surface Temperature from the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager, improved using numerical weather prediction

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Le Borgne, P ^a   Roquet, H ^a   Merchant, C J ^b  

^a MÉTÉO FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Meteosat 9; Retrieval errors; Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL ERROR; ALGORITHMIC ERRORS; ATMOSPHERIC ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; BUOY MEASUREMENTS; CORRECTION TERMS; DRIFTING BUOYS; FIELD OF VIEWS; INFRARED RADIOMETRY; METEOSAT; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NEGATIVE BIAS; NON-LINEAR; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OPERATIONAL USE; POSITIVE BIAS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SIMULATED ERROR; SPINNING ENHANCED VISIBLE AND INFRARED IMAGER; SPLIT WINDOW ALGORITHMS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TROPICAL ZONES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BUOYS; ERRORS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SURFACE PROPERTIES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALGORITHMS;

ABSORPTION; ALGORITHM; BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORECASTING METHOD; INFRARED IMAGERY; METEOSAT; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TROPICAL REGION; WATER VAPOR; WEATHER;

EID: 77958101212     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.08.004     Document Type: Article

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