Estimating the high-resolution mean sea-surface velocity field by combined use of altimeter and drifter data for geoid model improvement

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 195-204

  Imawaki, Shiro ^a   Uchida, Hiroshi ^b   Ichikawa, Kaoru ^a   Ambe, Daisuke ^c  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVICE; GEOGRAPHY; HYDROGRAPHY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MODEL; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY;

EID: 0242269357     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026106904472     Document Type: Conference Paper

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