Satellite radar altimetry collected during a number of geodetic missions has provided new understanding the topography and tectonics deep oceans. As altimeter performance coverage improves, smaller structures are revealed. Here we investigate contribution six that have been placed into mapping phases for more than one year. Two types evaluations performed. We first compare composite (all altime...

In this research, the features of Kuroshio Current in 2019 were studied based on observations 29 self-developed surface current experiment drifters deployed western Pacific Ocean and East China Sea. The flow pattern velocity magnitude observed largely consistent with climatology historical drifter dataset, but they still exhibited distinctive characteristics. intrusion into South Sea spring was...

Ten years (1998–2007) of sea-level anomalies (SLA) frommultiple satellite altimeters and chlorophyll-a concentration from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) were used to detect eddy pumping/advection of nutrients by the action of propagating Rossby waves in the Kuroshio Extension (KE) region near 35N after the seasonal SeaWiFS chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentrations cycles and ann...

From September 1999 to December 2000, eXpendable Bathy-Thermograph (XBT) profiles were collected along the Genova-Palermo shipping route in the framework of the Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project (MFSPP). The route is virtually coincident with track 0044 of the TOPEX/Poseidon satellite altimeter, crossing the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian basins in an approximate N–S direction. This allow...

[1] Observations by the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter have been used to detect subtle changes of the polar surface height during the course of seasonal cycles that correlate with the expected pattern of CO2 deposition and sublimation. Using altimetric crossover residuals from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, we show that while zonally averaged data capture the global behavior of CO2 exchange, t...

Abstract. Satellite altimeters routinely supply sea surface height (SSH) measurements, which are key observations for monitoring ocean dynamics. However, below a wavelength of about 70 km, along-track altimeter measurements often characterized by dramatic drop in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), making it very challenging to fully exploit the available precisely analyze small mesoscale variations S...