Measuring ocean wave period with satellite altimeters: A simple empirical model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 22, 2003, Pages

  Gommenginger, C P ^a   Srokosz, M A ^a   Challenor, P G ^a   Cotton, P D ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b Satellite Observing Systems   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; RADAR; RADIO ALTIMETERS; WATER WAVES; WEATHER SATELLITES; WIND; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; REGIONAL PLANNING;

TOPEX ALTIMETERS; EMPIRICAL MODEL; LARGE DATASET; MODEL FORMULATION; REGIONAL ANALYSIS; RETRIEVAL ERRORS; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; ZERO-UP-CROSSING;

GEOPHYSICS; WATER WAVES;

OCEAN WAVE; PERIODICITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

EID: 17144439909     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017743     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Barrick, D. E., Wind dependence of quasi-specular microwave sea scatter, IEEE Trans. Antenna Prop., AP-22, 135-136, 1974.
2. Boggs, P. T., and J. E. Rogers, Orthogonal distance regression, in Contemporary Mathematics, Volume 112, edited by P. J. Brown and W. A. Fuller, pp. 183-194, Am. Math. Soc., 1990.
3. Callahan, P. S., C. S. Morris, and S. V. Hsiao, Comparison of Topex-Poseidon σO and significant wave height distributions to Geosat, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 25,015-25,024, 1994.
4. Carter, D. J. T., Predictions of wave height and period for a constant wind velocity using the Jonswap results, Ocean Eng., 9, 17-33, 1982.
5. Davies, C. G., P. G. Challenor, and P. D. Cotton, Measurement of wave period from radar altimeters, in Ocean wave measurement and analysis, edited by B. L. Edge and J. M. Hemsley, pp. 819-826, Am. Soc. Civil Eng., USA, 1997.
6. Fu, L.-L., and R. E. Glazman, The effect of the degree of development on the sea state bias in radar altimetry measurement, J Geophys. Res., 96(C1), 829-834, 1991.
7. Glazman, R. E., and S. H. Pilorz, Effects of sea maturity on satellite altimeter measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 95, 2857-2870, 1990.
8. Gommenginger, C. P., M. A. Srokosz, P. G. Challenor, and P. D. Cotton, Development and validation of altimeter wind speed algorithms using an extended collocated buoy/Topex dataset, IEEE Trans. Geosc. Remote Sens., 40(2), 251-260, 2002.
9. Gourrion, J., D. Vandemark, S. A. Bailey, B. Chapron, C. P. Gommenginger, P. G. Challenor, and M. A. Srokosz, A two parameter wind speed algorithm for Ku-band altimeters, J. Atmos. Ocean Tech., 19(12), 2030-2048, 2002.
10. Hwang, P. A., W. J. Teague, G. A. Jacobs, and D. W. Wang, A statistical comparison of wind speed, wave height and wave period derived from satellite altimeters and ocean buoys in the Gulf of Mexico region, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 10,451-10,468, 1998.
11. Tucker, M. J., Waves in ocean engineering: Measurement, analysis, interpretation, 431 pp., Ellis Horwood Ltd., Chichester, England, 1991.