A new global climatology of annual land surface temperature

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 2850-2870

  Bechtel, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Annual cycle parameters; Annual temperature cycle; Cloud gaps; Land surface temperature; MODIS; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; INFRARED RADIATION; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

ANNUAL CYCLE; ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE; MODIS; THERMAL INFRARED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84926338015     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70302850     Document Type: Article

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