Assessment of satellite-derived sea surface salinity in the Indian Ocean

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 428-431

  Ratheesh, Smitha ^a   Mankad, Bhasha ^a   Basu, Sujit ^a   Kumar, Raj ^a   Sharma, Rashmi ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Argo floats; functional relationship (FR); modular ocean model (MOM) version 3 (MOM3) ocean model; Research Moored Array for African Asian Australian Monsoon Analysis and Prediction (RAMA) buoys; Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) salinity; triple collocation

Indexed keywords

ARGO FLOAT; FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIP; MOORED ARRAYS; OCEAN MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE AND OCEAN SALINITY (SMOS); TRIPLE COLLOCATION;

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BUOYS; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SOIL MOISTURE; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870551621     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2012.2207943     Document Type: Article

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