Validation of significant wave height from improved satellite altimetry in the German bight

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 2146-2156

  Passaro, Marcello ^a   Fenoglio Marc, Luciana ^b   Cipollini, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buoy; coastal altimetry; German bight; retracking,satellite altimetry; significant wave height (SWH); subwaveformretracker; tidal flats; validation

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; BUOYS; OCEAN CURRENTS; WATER WAVES;

COASTAL ALTIMETRY; GERMAN BIGHT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT; SUBWAVEFORMRETRACKER; TIDAL FLAT; VALIDATION;

GEODETIC SATELLITES;

COASTAL ZONE; DATA BUOY; DATA PROCESSING; ENVISAT-1; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SEA STATE; TIDAL FLAT; WAVE HEIGHT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GERMAN BIGHT; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84908040880     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2014.2356331     Document Type: Article

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