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PT J
TI Potential use of microwave sea surface temperatures for the estimation of ocean currents - art. no. L24608
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AF ISERN-FONTANET, Jordi
   CHAPRON, Bertrand
   LAPEYRE, Guillaume
   KLEIN, Patrice
AS 1:1,2;2:2;3:3;4:1;
FF 1:;2:PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LOS;3:;4:;
C1 IFREMER, Lab Phys Oceans, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   IFREMER, Lab Oceanog Spatiale, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   Ecole Normale Super, IPSL, Meteorol Dynam Lab, F-75231 Paris, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   IFREMER, FRANCE
   IPSL, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LOS
   PDG-DOP-DCB-OPS-LPO
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
IF 2.602
TC 88
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-2177.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Microwave radiometers;Sea surface temperature;Surface quasi geostrophy
AB In this paper, we examine the emerging potential offered by satellite microwave radiometer SST measurements to complement altimeter data to quantitatively derive surface ocean currents. The proposed methodology does not follow standard sequential temporal analysis but follows the application of the Surface Quasi-Geostrophic (SQG) theory. Accordingly, under favourable environmental conditions, the implementation for this methodology is simple and robust, and most importantly, solely requires a single SST image. For the present demonstration, altimetric measurements are used to infer a necessary adjustment to match the kinetic energy level for length scales smaller than 300 km. This helps to derive a regional effective Brunt-Vaisala frequency to produce SQG surface current estimates. As demonstrated, the results are very encouraging and strongly invite to consider the systematic use of satellite microwave radiometer measurements.
PY 2006
PD DEC
SO Geophysical Research Letters ( GRL )
SN 0094-8276
PU American Geophysical Union
VL 33
IS 24
UT 000243105900003
DI 10.1029/2006GL027801
ID 2177
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