RAMSSA - An operational, high-resolution, Regional Australian Multi-Sensor Sea surface temperature Analysis over the Australian region

Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-22

  Beggs, Helen ^a   Zhong, Aihong ^a   Warren, Graham ^a   Alves, Oscar ^a   Brassington, Gary ^a   Pugh, Tim ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMSR-E; AVHRR; DATA PROCESSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 79958786778     PISSN: 1836716X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22499/2.6101.001     Document Type: Article

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