Rossby waves play a critical role in the transient adjustment of ocean circulation to changes
in large-scale atmospheric forcing. The TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite altimeter has detected …

Publisher Summary The basic concept of satellite altimetry is to measure the range from the
satellite to the sea surface. The altimeter transmits a short pulse of microwave radiation with …

Over 20 global ocean tide models have been developed since 1994, primarily as a
consequence of analysis of the precise altimetric measurements from TOPEX/POSEIDON …

Coordinate time series are often derived from continuous GPS data processed as discrete
24 hour solutions. Under this regimen, residual semi‐diurnal and diurnal crustal tide …

Approximately 12 months of data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON satellite altimeter mission are
analyzed for the major short‐period oceanic tides. A harmonic analysis is performed on data …

Three years of TOPEX/POSEIDON altimeter data are analyzed with respect to large‐scale
fluctuations in sea surface height observations and underlying physical processes. In …

Data from 1043 tide gauges around the world have been used to map the global distribution
of the seasonal cycle of mean sea level at the coast. Large‐scale features, such as the …

The ocean plays a key role in determining the global climate and its time evolution. To
understand this role and subsequently develop techniques for predicting future climate, one …

Publisher Summary Satellite altimetry has provided the first direct measurement of the global
ocean topography. This chapter discusses the utility of such measurement for the …

We have analyzed 50 ten‐day cycles of TOPEX/POSEIDON (T/P) altimeter data to evaluate
the ocean dynamic topography and its temporal variations. We have employed data from …