A reprocessing for climate of sea surface temperature from the along-track scanning radiometers: Basis in radiative transfer

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 116, Issue , 2012, Pages 32-46

  Embury, Owen ^a   Merchant, Christopher J ^a   Filipiak, Mark J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Along track scanning radiometer (ATSR); Sea surface temperature (SST)

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC PROFILE; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; DATA SETS; DISCRETE ORDINATES; FORWARD MODELS; FULL RESOLUTIONS; RADIATIVE IMPACTS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER SIMULATIONS; SCATTERING MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TOP OF ATMOSPHERES; TRACE-GASES; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; FORWARD SCATTERING; GAS FUEL ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SCANNING; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; METHANE; NITRIC ACID; NITROGEN OXIDES; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACE GAS;

EID: 83055181481     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.10.016     Document Type: Article

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