A reprocessing for climate of sea surface temperature from the along-track scanning radiometers: A new retrieval scheme

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 47-61

  Embury, Owen ^a   Merchant, Christopher J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATSR; Climate; Remote sensing; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATSR; CLIMATE; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; NOISE LEVELS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OFFSET COEFFICIENTS; REFERENCE ALGORITHM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TOTAL COLUMN WATER VAPOURS;

ALGORITHMS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

ALGORITHM; ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CLIMATOLOGY; GEOMETRY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NOISE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 82955187821     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.11.020     Document Type: Article

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