Monitoring the surface inflow of Atlantic Water to the Norwegian Sea using Envisat ASAR

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Hansen, M W ^a   Johannessen, J A ^a,b   Dagestad, K F ^a   Collard, F ^c   Chapron, B ^d  

^a NANSEN ENVIRONMENTAL AND REMOTE SENSING CENTER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c CLS   (France)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MONITORING; MOORING; OCEAN CURRENTS; RADAR IMAGING; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; VELOCITY;

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADARS; ATLANTIC WATER; COASTAL CURRENTS; CURRENT METERS; ENVISAT; ENVISAT ASAR; IMAGING GEOMETRY; LAGRANGIAN DRIFTERS; MEAN DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHIES; NORTH SEA; OCEAN SURFACES; RANGE DOPPLER; RETRIEVAL METHODS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SEA SURFACES; SKAGERRAK; SLOPE CURRENTS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SURFACE GEOSTROPHIC CURRENTS; SURFACE INFLOWS; SURFACE VELOCITY; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIATION; TIME-AVERAGED; TOPOGRAPHIC STEERING; UPPER OCEAN CURRENTS;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

COASTAL CURRENT; DRIFTER; ENVISAT-1; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; INFLOW; MONITORING; OCEANIC CURRENT; SURFACE FLUX; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 83655164844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007375     Document Type: Article

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