Overview and Update of the Sea State Bias Corrections for the Jason-2, Jason-1 and TOPEX Missions

Marine Geodesy

Volumn 33, Issue , 2010, Pages 348-362

  Tran, N ^a   Labroue, S ^a   Philipps, S ^a   Bronner, E ^b   Picot, N ^b  

^a CLS   (France)

^b CNES   (France)

Author keywords

empirical estimation; Jason 1; Jason 2; nonparametric models; Sea state bias; TOPEX

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954652042     PISSN: 01490419     EISSN: 1521060X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01490419.2010.487788     Document Type: Article

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