Sea state bias in altimeter sea level estimates determined by combining wave model and satellite data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Tran, N ^a   Vandemark, D ^b   Labroue, S ^a   Feng, H ^b   Chapron, B ^c   Tolman, H L ^d   Lambin, J ^e   Picot, N ^e  

^a CLS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c IFREMER   (France)

^d CLIMATE PREDICTION CENTER   (United States)

^e CNES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEODETIC SATELLITES; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; SEA LEVEL; TWO DIMENSIONAL; WATER WAVES;

3D MODELS; CORRECTION METHOD; CORRECTION MODELS; DATA SETS; JASON-1; MEAN WAVE PERIOD; NEW MODEL; OCEAN BASINS; OCEAN OBSERVATIONS; OCEAN WAVE MODEL; RANGE ERROR; SATELLITE DATA; SEA STATE; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA-STATE BIAS; VARIANCE REDUCTIONS; WAVE MODELING; WAVE MODELS; WAVE PERIOD; WAVEFIELDS; ZONAL VARIATIONS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CORRECTION; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; OCEAN WAVE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WAVE MODELING;

EID: 77953577271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005534     Document Type: Article

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