Monitoring the spreading of the Amazon freshwater plume by MODIS, SMOS, Aquarius, and TOPAZ

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 268-283

  Korosov, Anton ^a   Counillon, François ^a   Johannessen, Johnny A ^a  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Amazon plume; mesoscale eddies; neural network; sea surface salinity; water leaving reflectance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AQUARIUS; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODIS; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER PLUME; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SMOS; TOPAZ;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BRAZIL; CARIBBEAN SEA;

EID: 85027919465     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010155     Document Type: Article

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