Statistics of spatial-temporal variations of sea surface height based on topex altimeter measurements

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2647-2666

  Glazman, R E ^a   Greysukh, A ^a   Fabrikant, A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; STATISTICS; SURFACE WATERS; SURFACE WAVES;

SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; THREE DIMENSIONAL SPATIAL TEMPORAL AUTOCORRELATION FUNCTIONS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALTIMETRY; DATA PROCESSING; OCEAN WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE; SEA SURFACE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; TOPEX/POSEIDON;

EID: 0030250794     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431169608949097     Document Type: Article

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