A 20year independent record of sea surface temperature for climate from Along-Track Scanning Radiometers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Merchant, Christopher J ^a   Embury, Owen ^a   Rayner, Nick A ^b   Berry, David I ^c   Corlett, Gary K ^d   Lean, Katie ^b   Veal, Karen L ^d   Kent, Elizabeth C ^c   Llewellyn Jones, David T ^d   Remedios, John J ^d   Saunders, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALONG-TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETERS; CLIMATE VARIABLES; DATA SETS; DEGREE OF INDEPENDENCE; GLOBAL MARINES; GLOBAL VARIATIONS; GRID CELLS; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; INFRARED IMAGERY; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; PHYSICS-BASED; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SST ANOMALIES; TROPICAL REGIONS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ERROR ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; ANNUAL VARIATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CHANGE; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INFRARED IMAGERY; NEW RECORD; RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871383251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012JC008400     Document Type: Article

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