Land surface skin temperature climatology: Benefitting from the strengths of satellite observations

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Jin, Menglin ^a   Dickinson, Robert E ^b  

^a SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Land surface; Remote sensing; Skin temperature

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

CLIMATOLOGICAL INFORMATION; LAND SURFACE; LAND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SKIN TEMPERATURES; SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURES; SURFACE SKIN TEMPERATURE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 78149310394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/5/4/044004     Document Type: Article

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