First assessment of SMOS data over open ocean: Part I-pacific ocean

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1648-1661

  Yin, Xiaobin ^a   Boutin, Jacqueline ^a   Spurgeon, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Le Grand Large Quai de la Douane   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Interferometric radiometer; ocean; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) data

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; COMMISSIONING PHASE; EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FIELD OF VIEWS; FIRST ORDER; FORCINGS; HIGH WIND SPEED; IN-ORBIT; MICROWAVE IMAGING RADIOMETER USING APERTURE SYNTHESIS; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN; OCEAN SALINITY; OPEN OCEAN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RADIOMETRIC RESOLUTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY MISSIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION; WIND SPEED;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERFEROMETRY; RADIOMETERS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND EFFECTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; INTERFEROMETER; OPEN OCEAN; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84860268434     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188407     Document Type: Article

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