Orbit-related sea level errors for TOPEX altimetry at seasonal to decadal timescales

• Published in: Ocean Science
• Main Author: Esselborn S., Rudenko S., Schöne T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität München 2018
• Subjects: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc:620; Géodésie; Pacific; Southern Ocean; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://mediatum.ub.tum.de/node?id=1435454; https://doi.org/10.5194/os-14-205-2018

Interannual to decadal sea level trends are indicators of climate variability and change. A major source of global and regional sea level data is satellite radar altimetry, which relies on precise knowledge of the satellite's orbit. Here, we assess the error budget of the radial orbit component...