Monitoring ocean currents with satellite sensors

Oceanography

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 94-103

  Dohan, Kathleen ^a   Maximenko, Nikolai ^b  

^a EARTH AND SPACE RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 78649699084     PISSN: 10428275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2010.08     Document Type: Article

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