Assessment of various global freshwater flux products for the global ice-free oceans

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 549-561

  Iwasaki, Shinsuke ^a   Kubota, Masahisa ^b   Watabe, Tsuyoshi ^b  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Freshwater flux; Global ocean; Intercomparison

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH REANALYSIS; CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTERS; FRESHWATER FLUXES; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL PRECIPITATION CLIMATOLOGY PROJECTS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERCOMPARISONS; NATIONAL CENTERS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PREDICTIONS;

BUDGET CONTROL; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; TROPICS; WATER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPORATION; FRESHWATER INPUT; GLOBAL OCEAN; HUMIDITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE; TREND ANALYSIS; WATER BUDGET; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 84886000436     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.026     Document Type: Article

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