Global space-time statistics of sea surface temperature estimated from AMSR-E data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Hosoda, K ^a   Kawamura, H ^b  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

4299 Oceanography: General: General or miscellaneous; 4504 Oceanography: Physical: Air sea interations (0312); 4599 Oceanography: Physical: General or miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIOMETERS; SCANNING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; STATISTICAL METHODS; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; AUTOCORRELATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACE WATERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); TEMPORAL SCALES;

SEA LEVEL; OCEANOGRAPHY;

SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY;

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER FOR EOS; AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LEAST SQUARE METHODS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SEASONAL DIFFERENCES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; TEMPORAL DECORRELATION;

EID: 9744246745     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020317     Document Type: Article

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