Prediction of sea level anomalies using ocean circulation model forced by scatterometer wind and validation using TOPEX/Poseidon data

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 4 II, 2000, Pages 1871-1884

  Quilfen, Yves ^a   Bentamy, Abderrahim ^a   Delecluse, Pascale ^b   Katsaros, Kristina ^c   Grima, Nicolas ^b  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROUGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITES; SEA LEVEL; WIND STRESS;

OCEAN CIRCULATION MODEL; SCATTEROMETER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0034228705     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.851770     Document Type: Article

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