Slide 1Slide 2Slide 3Slide 4Slide 5Slide 6Slide 7Slide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Slide 19Slide 20Remote Sensing of the Oceanand Atmosphere:John WilkinSea [email protected] Building Room 214C732-932-6555 ext 251May 17-19, 2006Surface currents from Maximum Cross-Correlation analysis of AVHRR and ocean color image pairs7-day composite MCC (black vectors) Altimetry (white vectors)2007 Mar 18-25http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst.htmlhttp://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst.htmlhttp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/DATA_PRODUCT/SST/index.htmlCharacteristic temperature of the lower atmosphereOcean skin temperatureBulk temperature of near-surface ocean10-12 m3.5 - 4.1 mOften the relative atmospheric transmission is plotted vs. increasing wavelength10-12 m3.5-4.1 mhttp://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/chapter06/chapter06_10.htm 1 m2 mAbsorption coefficient for pure water as a function of wavelength λ of the radiation.Depth range that contributes to 11 m IRDepth range that contributes to 10 GHz microwave radiometer (a) Strong winds (b) Day-time weak windsWhy is the skin temperature always biased
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