Abstract: Three methods of extraction of mesoscale variability from altimetry are compared in the Somali current area: crossover residuals after minimization to reduce orbit errors, along-track variability using quasi-repetitive ...

Abstract: Seasat scatterometer data over the Arabian Sea are used to build wind stress fields during July and August 1978. They are first compared with 3-day wind analyses from ship data along the Somali coast. Seasat scatterometer ...

Abstract: The effect of a poorly constrained repetitivity of the orbit of an altimetric satellite is analyzed. From existing data, 35% of the marine geoid slopes are found to excess 1.5 cm km?1. This may be due either to ...

Abstract: The sea-state bias is the deviation of the sea surface height as seen by a satellite altimeter due to differential scattering by the crest and troughs of waves and to oversimplification of the radar waveform algorithms ...