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The Probability Density Function of Ocean Surface Slopes and Its Effects on Radar Backscatter
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Based on Longuet-Higgins?s theory of the probability distribution of wave amplitude and wave period and on some observations, a new probability density function (PDF) of ocean surface slopes is derived. It is where ?x and ...
Dynamics of Intraseasonal Sea Level and Thermocline Variability in the Equatorial Atlantic during 2002–03
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Satellite and in situ observations in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean during 2002?03 show dominant spectral peaks at 40?60 days and secondary peaks at 10?40 days in sea level and thermocline within the intraseasonal period ...
The Observed State of the Water Cycle in the Early Twenty-First Century
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: his study quantifies mean annual and monthly fluxes of Earth?s water cycle over continents and ocean basins during the first decade of the millennium. To the extent possible, the flux estimates are based on satellite ...
The Observed State of the Energy Budget in the Early Twenty-First Century
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: ew objectively balanced observation-based reconstructions of global and continental energy budgets and their seasonal variability are presented that span the golden decade of Earth-observing satellites at the start of the ...