Subsurface and deeper ocean remote sensing from satellites: An overview and new results

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 122, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-9

  Klemas, Victor ^a   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; INTERNAL WAVES; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; MODELING TECHNIQUE; OCEAN REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MANIFESTATIONS;

REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CLIMATE VARIATION; MIXED LAYER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; SATELLITE SENSOR;

EID: 84896737100     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.11.010     Document Type: Review

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