A pathway to generating Climate Data Records of sea-surface temperature from satellite measurements

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 77-80, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-51

  Minnett, Peter J ^a   Corlett, Gary K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate Data Records; Electromagnetic skin effect; Satellite radiometry; Sea surface temperature; SI traceability; Thermal skin effect

Indexed keywords

BLACKBODY CALIBRATION; CLIMATE DATA RECORDS; FIELD CALIBRATION; INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENT; INTERNAL CALIBRATION; NEAR SURFACE TEMPERATURE; RADIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS; SATELLITE RETRIEVAL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SURFACE EMISSIONS; UPPER OCEAN;

CALIBRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOMETRY; SHIPS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; WEATHER SATELLITES;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSIVITY; RADIOMETER; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SKIN EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84865444091     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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