A time series of mean global skin SST anomaly using data from ATSR-2 and AATSR

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 135, Issue , 2013, Pages 64-76

  Veal, Karen L ^a   Corlett, Gary K ^a   Ghent, Darren ^a   Llewellyn Jones, David T ^a   Remedios, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Data homogenization; Global mean temperature; Global mean temperature uncertainty; Satellite data; Sea surface temperature; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; DATA HOMOGENIZATION; GLOBAL-MEAN TEMPERATURE; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST);

ALIGNMENT; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; SENSORS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TIME SERIES;

ALONG TRACK SCANNING RADIOMETER; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA SET; GLOBAL CLIMATE; HOMOGENEITY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84876740707     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.03.028     Document Type: Article

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