Experimental study of the angular method for the determination of the sea surface temperature from space in the 8–12 μm window

The structure of the field of outgoing into space radiation for the 8–12 m spectral interval is studied using the data of satellite observations of the oceans. The regularity found is employed to substantiate the angular method for the sea surface temperature (SST) reconstruction. The band of the angles of view is determined in which the error of the SST reconstructon does not exceed 0.3°C with the assigned error of the satellite measurements of radiation temperatures of 0.05°C.UDK 551.507.362.2Translated by Mikhail M. Trufanov.