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The proposed piece of research makes an overview of the status of the retrieval and assimilation of surface ocean currents, being covered in sections 2 and 3 respectively. Section 2 discusses 5 different approaches to estimate ocean currents from satellite derived products such as SST or SSH. The techniques covered are grounded in various areas such ocean dynamics, non-linear physics or image processing. Section 3 discusses various methods to assimilate measured ocean currents, namely: nudging, ensemble Kalman Filters and 4DVAR.
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