Space-based retrievals of air-sea gas transfer velocities using altimeters: Calibration for dimethyl sulfide

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Goddijn Murphy, Lonneke ^a   Woolf, David K ^a   Marandino, Christa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; BACKSCATTERING; CALIBRATION; GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; VELOCITY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT; WIND EFFECTS;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; DIMETHYL SULFIDE; EDDY CORRELATIONS; ENVISAT; GAS TRANSFER; INTERCALIBRATION; JASON-1; KU-BAND; NUMERICAL SCHEME; PARAMETERIZATIONS; REDUCED DATA; REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SCHMIDT NUMBERS; SPACE-BASED; TRANSFER VELOCITY; WIND SPEED;

GASES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; ALTIMETER; BACKSCATTER; CALIBRATION; DIMETHYLSULFIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; GAS TRANSPORT;

EID: 84865728211     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007535     Document Type: Article

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