Effects of stencil width on surface ocean geostrophic velocity and vorticity estimation from gridded satellite altimeter data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Arbic, Brian K ^a   Scott, Robert B ^b,c   Chelton, Dudley B ^d   Richman, James G ^e   Shriver, Jay F ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^d OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ANISOTROPY; MARINE APPLICATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; RADIO ALTIMETERS;

ALTIMETER DATA; DIFFERENTIATORS; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; FIRST DERIVATIVE; GRID POINTS; GRID-SPACINGS; HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELS; MIDLATITUDES; SATELLITE ALTIMETER; SATELLITE ALTIMETER DATA; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; SURFACE OCEAN; VORTICITY ESTIMATION;

VELOCITY;

GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; KINETIC ENERGY; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA SURFACE HEIGHT; VELOCITY; VORTICITY;

EID: 84858834348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007367     Document Type: Article

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