ALES: A multi-mission adaptive subwaveform retracker for coastal and open ocean altimetry

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 145, Issue , 2014, Pages 173-189

  Passaro, Marcello ^a   Cipollini, Paolo ^b   Vignudelli, Stefano ^c   Quartly, Graham D ^d   Snaith, Helen M ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^d PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coastal altimetry; Retracking; Satellite altimetry; Subwaveform retracker; Tide gauge; Validation

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TIDE GAGES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COASTAL ALTIMETRY; RE-TRACKING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUBWAVEFORM RETRACKER; TIDE GAUGES; VALIDATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; ENVISAT-1; HYDRODYNAMICS; JASON-1; JASON-2; OPEN OCEAN; OPTIMIZATION; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TIDE GAUGE; TRACKING;

ADRIATIC SEA; AGULHAS CURRENT; INDIAN OCEAN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84897063219     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.008     Document Type: Article

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