Estimation of the Ocean Water Albedo From Remote Sensing and Meteorological Reanalysis Data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 850-868

  Feng, Youbin ^a   Liu, Qiang ^a   Qu, Ying ^a,b   Liang, Shunlin ^a,c  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ocean water albedo (OWA); sun glint; water leaving reflectance; whitecaps

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BALLOONS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; REFLECTION; SEA ICE; SOLAR RADIATION;

GROUND OBSERVATIONS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; WATER-LEAVING REFLECTANCE;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALBEDO; ALGORITHM; CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ENERGY BALANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LAND SURFACE; METEOROLOGY; MODIS; PARAMETERIZATION; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SEA ICE; SEAWATER;

UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; VIRGINIA BEACH;

EID: 84940732889     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2015.2468054     Document Type: Article

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