Upper ocean salinity stratification and rain freshening in the tropics observed from Aquarius

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 5111-5114

  Meissner, Thomas ^a   Wentz, Frank ^a   Scott, Joel ^a   Hilburn, Kyle ^a  

^a REMOTE SENSING SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Aquarius; Ocean Surface Salinity; Stratification

Indexed keywords

RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE WATERS; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; TROPICS;

AQUARIUS; GEOPHYSICAL MODELING; OCEAN SURFACES; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; SALINITY STRATIFICATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); UPPER OCEAN; VALIDATION RESULTS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 84911424153     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2014.6947647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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