RT Report
T1 Atlas des Fronts Thermiques en mer Méditerranée d'après l'imagerie Satellitaire
T2 Atlas of Thermal Fronts of the Mediterranean Sea Derived From Satellite Imagery
A2 Le Vourch, J.
A2 Millot, C.
A2 Castagné, N.
A2 Le Borgne, P.
A2 Orly, J.P.
K1 Mediterranean Sea
K1 Black Sea
K1 remote sensing
K1 infrared technology
K1 aerial photography
K1 environmental monitoring
K1 satellite communication
K1 satellite
K1 sea power
K1 thermal sea power
K1  Coastal and Marine Ecosystems
PB Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique
PB United Nations Environment Programme
SN 2-7260-0154-8
YR 1992
FD 1992
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/26309
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/26309
NO Monitoring of thermal fronts sensed by infrared (IR) radiometers aboard satellites began at the Centre de Météorologie Spatiale (CMS Lannion) in April 1979. The first monthly climatology of these fronts in the whole Mediterranean was published soon after (CHAMPAGNE-PH/LTPPE and HARANG, 1982). Between 1979 and 1987, the techniques used at CMS to produce the thermal structure maps remained unchanged until at the end of 1987, the introduction of interactive image processors completely modified the techniques and the products. This atlas takes the opportunity of this long (with respect to the usual lifetime of techniques and materials) period of stability (1980-1987) to try to describe the main features of the sea surface thermal structures in the Mediterranean Sea which have been observed daily throughout these years in the images of the Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) aboard the satellite series of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026