The effects of anomalous atmospheres on the accuracy of infrared sea-surface temperature retrievals: Dry air layer intrusions over the tropical ocean

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 450-465

  Szczodrak, M ^a   Minnett, P J ^a   Evans, R H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Anomalous atmospheric effects; Atmospheric correction; Dry layers; Infrared radiometry; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC EFFECTS; DRY-LAYERS; INFRARED RADIOMETRY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES;

ERRORS; RADIOMETERS; RADIOSONDES; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS; TEMPERATURE; TROPOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIR MASS; ALGORITHM; RADIOMETER; RADIOSONDE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SIMULATION; TROPICAL REGION; WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84885356866     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.010     Document Type: Article

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