A reprocessing for climate of sea surface temperature from the along-track scanning radiometers: Initial validation, accounting for skin and diurnal variability effects

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 62-78

  Embury, Owen ^a   Merchant, Christopher J ^a   Corlett, Gary K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ATSR; Sea surface temperature; SST; Validation

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATSR; BUOY OBSERVATIONS; DIURNAL VARIABILITY; DIURNAL WARMING; DRIFTING BUOYS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; ERROR ESTIMATES; IN-SITU; INTER-ALGORITHM CONSISTENCY; NIGHT TIME; OPERATIONAL RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SST; TOTAL COLUMN WATER VAPOURS; TWO-CHANNEL; VALIDATION; WIND SPEED;

ALGORITHMS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ESTIMATION; MODELS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

BUOYS;

ALGORITHM; ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; BUOY SYSTEM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOLING; DIURNAL VARIATION; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL VALIDATION; NADIR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 82955195760     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.028     Document Type: Article

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