Estimating the circulation from hydrography and satellite altimetry in the Southern Ocean: limitations imposed by the current geoid models
Sea-surface height data from satellite altimetry offers itself as avery powerful means of determining the general ocean circulation. Inorder to use it in time-independent problems, one has to use theequipotential height of a geoid model as a reference surface. Up tonow, this reference surface is not...
| Published in: | Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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2004
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| Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/4319/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/4319/1/Los2001c.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2004.02.012 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14894 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.14894.d001 |
| Summary: | Sea-surface height data from satellite altimetry offers itself as avery powerful means of determining the general ocean circulation. Inorder to use it in time-independent problems, one has to use theequipotential height of a geoid model as a reference surface. Up tonow, this reference surface is not known to an accuracy sufficientfor ocean state estimation, as is demonstrated in the context of aninverse analysis of a particular hydrographic section in theSouthern Ocean with altimetry data relative to the geoid height ofthe EGM96 geoid model. |
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