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: aussian process emulators are a powerful tool for understanding complex geophysical simulators, including oceanic and atmospheric general circulation models. Concern has been raised about their ability to emulate complex ...

Abstract: Ocean fronts are narrow zones of intense dynamic activity that play an important role in global ocean?atmosphere interactions. Owing to their highly variable nature, both in space and time, they are notoriously difficult ...

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 ...