Benefits of the Future Sea Surface Salinity Measurements From SMOS: Generation and Characteristics of SMOS Geophysical Products
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عنوان ژورنال: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0196-2892,1558-0644
DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2007.914802