Abstract: A simple analytic formula for the probability of wave breaking at a given point is derived on the basis of Gaussian statistics. The result is found to depend on a nondimensionalized variance of the sea surface acceleration ...

Abstract: A new statistical distribution for the surface elevation of weakly nonlinear water waves is derived using the Pearson System of distributions. The new distribution avoids some problems associated with previously proposed ...

Abstract: In this paper seasonal variations in the Agulhas Retroflection region are studied by analyzing data from the radar altimeter, flown on the Geosat satellite, and output from the Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (FRAM). The ...

Abstract: Recent theoretical studies of the accelerations in regular gravity waves of finite steepness have shown striking differences between the Eulerian and the Lagrangian accelerations (those measured by fixed instruments or ...

Abstract: In this paper waveforms, that is, returns from the ocean surface, from a number of spaceborne radar altimeter instruments [European Remote-sensing Satellites (ERS-1 and -2), TOPEX, and Poseidon] are examined. This is the ...

Abstract: Rain has long been categorized as a contaminant of altimeter data, but little has been done previously to ascertain the magnitude and frequency of its effect or its geographical distribution. Proceeding from recent analysis ...

Abstract: For early satellite altimeters, the retrieval of geophysical information (e.g., range, significant wave height) from altimeter ocean waveforms was performed on board the satellite, but this was restricted by computational ...

Abstract: Globally distributed crossovers of altimeter and scatterometer observations clearly demonstrate that ocean altimeter backscatter correlates with both the near-surface wind speed and the sea state. Satellite data from ...