The Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA) system

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 140-158

  Donlon, Craig J ^a   Martin, Matthew ^a   Stark, John ^a   Roberts Jones, Jonah ^a   Fiedler, Emma ^a   Wimmer, Werenfrid ^b  

^a MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Sea ice; Sea surface temperature; SST

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED-ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; BACKGROUND-ERROR COVARIANCES; BIAS ERROR; CORRELATION LENGTH SCALE; DATA SETS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DRIFTING BUOYS; ENVISAT; EUROPEAN UNION; FEATURE RESOLUTION; FORECASTING SYSTEM; GLOBAL COVERAGE; GLOBAL MONITORING FOR ENVIRONMENT AND SECURITY; GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATION; GRID RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRARED SATELLITES; MULTISCALES; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; OCEAN MODEL; OPTIMAL INTERPOLATION; SATELLITE APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE SST; SEA ICE CONCENTRATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SECONDARY PRODUCT; SST; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TASK SHARING; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; WEATHER FORECAST MODELS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ATMOSPHERICS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; GEODETIC SATELLITES; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; SEA ICE; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CORRELATION; DIURNAL VARIATION; EDDY COVARIANCE; ENVISAT-1; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; INTERPOLATION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TELECOMMUNICATION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 82955195608     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.10.017     Document Type: Article

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