Abstract: A method is described for using tide gauge sea levels to monitor time-dependent drift in satellite altimetric measurements of sea surface height. The method depends on a careful assessment of the quality of the tide gauge ...

Abstract: We report an unprecedented description of the latitudinal structure of tropical Pacific Ocean sea level variability for time scales between 3 and 100 days. A plot of calculated sea level variance latitude and frequency is ...

Abstract: Three weeks of current-meter, wind and sea-level data off Cedar Key, Florida are analyzed. Currents and sea level are found to be coherent with alongshore wind stress in the ?synoptic? band (?0.05?0.25 cycle per day) and ...

Abstract: The annual cycle of sea level variability is examined for the period 1976?1985 at seven stations that lie along the mere axis (near 7°N)) of the north equatorial countercurrent (NECC) sea level trough in the western Pacific. ...

Abstract: An analytic barotropic model was used to study the nearshore frictional response to synoptic-scale wind forcing. The results depend only on the region where the surface and bottom Ekman layers interact strongly and the ...

Abstract: Clarke and Van Gorder have recently formulated a model describing the large-scale, low-frequency response of continental shelf waters to synoptic-scale wind stress in terms of a sum of forced waves. The model includes ...

Abstract: Correlations of monthly mean sea level variations along the Pacific Ocean margin are used to define length scales. In the northeast quadrant a minimum length scale at about 38°N separates two distinct regimes of longer ...

Abstract: nterannual to multidecadal variability of winter storminess in the eastern United States was studied using water level measurements from coastal tide gauges. The proximity to the coast of the primary winter storm track in ...

Abstract: Data from satellite altimeters are often degraded by the occurrence of unrealistically high radar return cross sections, which indicate a breakdown of the rough surface scattering model used to interpret these measurements ...

Abstract: Comparisons of OSCAR satellite-derived sea surface currents with in situ data from moored current meters, drifters, and shipboard current profilers indicate that OSCAR presently provides accurate time means of zonal and ...