Abstract: One of the problems encountered when using satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) data is the impossibility of retrieving data where the ocean surface is obscured by cloud. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) ...

Abstract: The mean dynamic height of the ocean surface is estimated along a subsatellite track of TOPEX/Poseidon crossing the East Auckland Current system northeast of New Zealand. Repeated hydrographic surveys along the track, ...

Abstract: One of the most successful applications of satellite-borne radar altimeter data over the oceans in recent years has been the extraction of information about long-wavelength baroclinic Rossby (or planetary) waves, which ...

Abstract: Random observational errors for sea surface temperature (SST) are estimated using merchant ship reports from the International Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS) for the period of 1970?97. A statistical ...

Abstract: The effects on a dataset of smoothing by successive correction have been investigated. The resulting spatial resolution is estimated using a distribution of ship reports from a sample month. Although the smoothing uses the ...

Abstract: The random observational errors for meteorological variables within the Comprehensive Ocean?Atmosphere Dataset (COADS) have been determined using the semivariogram statistical technique. The error variance has been calculated ...

Abstract: he roughness of the seas is rarely mentioned as a major factor in the economic or social welfare of a region. In this study, the relationship between the ocean wave climate and the economy of the Western Isles of Scotland ...