The Aquarius salinity retrieval algorithm recent progress and remaining challenges

13th Specialist Meeting on Microwave Radiometry and Remote Sensing of the Environment, MicroRad 2014 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 49-54

  Meissner, T ^a   Wentz, F ^a   Ricciardulli, L ^a   Hilburn, K ^a   Scott, J ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquarius; L band microwave radiometers; L band wind speeds; Ocean Surface Salinity

Indexed keywords

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE DEVICES; MICROWAVES; REMOTE SENSING; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WIND;

ALGORITHM IMPROVEMENTS; AQUARIUS; GALACTIC RADIATIONS; MICROWAVE RADIOMETERS; OCEAN SURFACES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SCATTEROMETER MEASUREMENTS; WIND SPEED;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84906771650     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MicroRad.2014.6878906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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