Characterization of westward propagating signals in the South Atlantic from altimeter and radiometer records

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 134, Issue , 2013, Pages 367-376

  Oliveira, Fabrício S C ^a   Polito, Paulo S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cross correlation analysis; Mesoscale eddies; Planetary waves; Radon transform

Indexed keywords

ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE; CROSS-CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOSTROPHIC ADVECTION; MESOSCALE EDDY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; PLANETARY WAVES; RADON TRANSFORM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; MICROWAVE DEVICES; OCEAN CURRENTS; STREAM FLOW; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ALTIMETER; BAROCLINIC WAVE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; JASON-1; MESOSCALE EDDY; MICROWAVE RADIOMETER; PLANETARY WAVE; RADAR ALTIMETRY; RADIOMETER; RADON TRANSFORM; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIGNAL; TOPEX-POSEIDON; TRMM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84876314444     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.019     Document Type: Article

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