[1] The South China Sea (SCS) summer circulation often has a dipole structure associated with an eastward jet, appearing off central Vietnam. The dipole has an anticyclonic eddy (AE) south of the jet and a cyclonic eddy (CE) north of it. The life cycle of the dipole structure is analyzed using satellite altimetry data and a reduced gravity model. On average the dipole structure begins in June, ...

We detect, for the first time, a negative free-air gravity anomaly of 23 mGal amplitude over a region in the South Atlantic Ocean centered at 48◦W and 35◦S. To this end, we used the integration of conventional shipborne gravity data and gravity data derived from GEOSAT/ERM satellite altimetry. The north bound of this anomaly coincides with the Chuı́ Lineament and the south bound indicates anothe...

Calculating the WCET of mission-critical satellite applications is a challenging issue. The European Space Agency is currently undertaking the CryoSat mission, consisting of a radar altimetry satellite to be launched in 2005. This paper describes the challenges and the first experimental results of calculating the WCET of the Control and Data Management Unit (CDMU) subsystem of the satellite. T...

The so-called Colombo-Nyquist (Colombo, The global mapping of gravity with two satellites, 1984) rule in satellite geodesy has been revisited. This rule predicts that for a gravimetric satellite flying in a (near-)polar circular repeat orbit, the maximum resolvable geopotential spherical harmonic degree (lmax) is equal to half the number of orbital revolutions (nr) the satellite completes in on...

A fully relativistic modified gravitational theory including a fifth force skew symmetric field is fitted to the Pioneer 10/11 anomalous acceleration. The theory allows for a variation with distance scales of the gravitational constant G, the fifth force skew symmetric field coupling strength ω and the mass of the skew symmetric field μ = 1/λ. A fit to the available anomalous acceleration data ...

The long-term sea level change during 1993 to 2008 was investigated in the Malaysian seas from satellite altimetry data of the TOPEX, JASON-1, ERS-1, ERS-2 and ENVISAT missions. Sea level data retrieval and reduction were carried out using the radar altimeter database system (RADS). In RADS data processing, the 2008 updated environmental and geophysical corrections were applied. Six 1° × 1° are...

A spatiospectral localization method is discussed for processing the global geopotential coefficients from satellite mission data to investigate time-variable gravity. The time-variable mass variation signal usually appears associated with a particular geographical area yielding inherently regional structure, while the dependence of the satellite gravity errors on a geographical region is not s...

A recently developed multiresolution estimation framework offers the possibility of highly efficient statistical analysis, interpolation, and smoothing of extremely large data sets in a multiscale fashion. This framework enjoys a number of advantages not shared by other statistically-based methods. In particular, the algorithms resulting from this framework have complexity that scales only line...