Sensitivity of infrared sea surface temperature retrievals to the vertical distribution of airborne dust aerosol

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 159, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-13

  Bogdanoff, Alec S ^a   Westphal, Douglas L ^b   Campbell, James R ^b   Cummings, James A ^b   Hyer, Edward J ^b   Reid, Jeffrey S ^b   Clayson, Carol Anne ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dust aerosols; Infrared remote sensing; Radiative transfer; Retrieval error; Sea surface temperature

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DUST; ERRORS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS;

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; DUST AEROSOLS; DUST CONTAMINATION; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AERONET; AEROSOL; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUD COVER; DUST; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

CAPE VERDE [MACARONESIA];

EID: 84923811325     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.12.002     Document Type: Article

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