On the quality of real-time altimeter gridded fields: Comparison with in situ data

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 556-569

  Pascual, Ananda ^a   Boone, Christine ^b   Larnicol, Gilles ^b   Le Traon, Pierre Yves ^c  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b CLS   (France)

^c IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTIONS; COASTAL AREAS; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; DEEP OCEANS; ENVISAT; EUROPEAN REMOTE SENSING SATELLITES; FAST DELIVERY PRODUCTS; IN-SITU DATUM; JASON-1; MEAN SQUARE DIFFERENCES; OBSERVING SYSTEM EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN STATE; OCEAN TOPOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTS; OPERATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHIES; QUALITY PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME; ROBUST MONITORING; SATELLITE ALTIMETERS; SEA LEVEL ANOMALIES; SPACE AND TIME; TIDE GAUGES; VELOCITY ESTIMATIONS;

COASTAL ZONES; GEOPHYSICS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; TIDE GAGES; WEATHER FORECASTING;

METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS;

ALTIMETER; ATMOSPHERIC CORRECTION; COASTAL ZONE; DATA QUALITY; ENVISAT-1; ERROR CORRECTION; ERS-2; FORECASTING METHOD; MONITORING; OCEAN TIDE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA LEVEL;

EID: 65549137597     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2008JTECHO556.1     Document Type: Article

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