Quality assessment of a satellite altimetry data product in the Nordic, Barents, and Kara seas

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Volkov, Denis L ^a,c   Pujol, M Isabelle ^b  

^a Los Angeles   (United States)

^b CLS   (France)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONES; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; TIDE GAGES;

ALIASING; COASTAL AREA; HIGH FREQUENCY SIGNALS; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; KARA SEA; LONG-TERM CHANGES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITY; NORDIC SEAS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SEA-ICE COVER; SEASONAL CYCLE; SHALLOW AREAS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIDE GAUGES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

EKMAN TRANSPORT; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; MESOSCALE MOTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KARA SEA; NORWEGIAN SEA;

EID: 84858811215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007557     Document Type: Article

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