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Abstract: This study aims to show that Lagrangian surface drifters are a suitable means of validating the mapping of oceanic mesoscale circulation by satellite altimetry. Tests are done using Geosat data to simulate drifter trajectories ...

Abstract: The authors used meteorological pressure fields from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts to calculate a mean global pressure to serve as a reference for an improved inverse barometer correction of altimeter ...

Abstract: Among the various sources of error on altimetric sea surface height variability, the orbit error has the largest amplitude. However, since orbit error is mostly at long wavelengths, it can theoretically be distinguished ...

Abstract: The contribution of merging multiple-satellite altimeter missions to the mapping of sea level is analyzed from a North Atlantic high-resolution (1/10°) numerical simulation. The model is known to represent the mesoscale ...

Abstract: Objective analysis of altimetric data (sea level anomaly) usually assumes that measurement errors are well represented by a white noise, though there are long-wavelength errors that are correlated over thousands of kilometers ...

Abstract: ea surface height (SSH) measurements provided by pulse-limited radar altimeters are one-dimensional profiles along the satellite's nadir track, with no information whatsoever in the cross-track direction. The anisotropy ...

Abstract: A new technique is developed and tested to correct for cross-track geoid gradients in altimeter data. The proposed method is based on direct estimations of geoid variations around nominal tracks and on knowledge of ocean ...

Abstract: he authors use a collocation method between XBT and CTD/Ocean Station Data (OSD; including bottle cast and low-resolution CTD) from World Ocean Database 2005 (WOD2005) to statistically correct the XBT fall rate. An analysis ...

Abstract: The variable ocean dynamic topography is generally estimated from the satellite altimeter signal once the orbit error has been removed. To compute the orbit error, the most conventional technique is to fit a polynomial ...