Overview of the first SMOS sea surface salinity products. Part I: Quality assessment for the second half of 2010

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 50, Issue 5 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1636-1647

  Reul, Nicolas ^a   Tenerelli, Joseph ^b   Boutin, Jaqueline ^c   Chapron, Bertrand ^a   Paul, Frédéric ^a   Brion, Emilie ^d   Gaillard, Fabienne ^a   Archer, Olivier ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CLS   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Atlantide Altran Ouest   (France)

Author keywords

L band; microwave radiometry; ocean salinity; sea surface

Indexed keywords

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY; FORWARD MODELING; GLOBAL ERRORS; HIGH LATITUDES; L-BAND; MAXIMUM AMPLITUDE; MICROWAVE RADIOMETRY; OCEAN SALINITY; OPERATIONAL LEVEL; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY INTERFERENCE; SATELLITE SENSOR DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACES; SEA-ICE EDGE; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL AGGREGATION; STANDARD DEVIATION; TEMPORAL DRIFTS; TIME-DEPENDENT; WORLD OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE SCATTERING;

SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; DATABASE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORWARD MODELING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SENSOR;

ASIA;

EID: 84860309488     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2012.2188408     Document Type: Article

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