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PT J
TI Altimeter sea state bias: A new look at global range error estimates
BT 
AF CHAPRON, Bertrand
   VANDEMARK, D
   ELFOUHAILY, T
   THOMPSON, DR
   GASPAR, P
   LABROUE, S
AS 1:1;2:2;3:3;4:3;5:4;6:4;
FF 1:PDG-DRO-DOPS-LOS;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;
C1 IFREMER, Ctr Brest, F-29280 Plouzane, France.
   NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Wallops Isl, VA 23337 USA.
   Johns Hopkins Univ, Appl Phys Lab, Laurel, MD USA.
   Collecte Localisat Satellites, Ramonville St Agne, France.
C2 IFREMER, FRANCE
   NASA, USA
   UNIV JOHNS HOPKINS, USA
   CLS, FRANCE
SI BREST
SE PDG-DRO-DOPS-LOS
IN WOS Ifremer jusqu'en 2018
   copubli-france
   copubli-int-hors-europe
IF 2.516
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/10275/10691.pdf
LA English
DT Article
AB A nonparametric SSB model, derived using the TOPEX altimeter, is analyzed to show a new decomposition of the form SSB = bH(s) + f(sigma (o)), where b is 0.03 and the function of radar cross section (sigma (o)) is an absolute second-order range correction residing outside the conventional nondimensional SSB model. Expected variability in the dominant bH(s) term and its ties to the long wave orbital velocity and shorter-scale slope variances are discussed using a physic ally-motivated restatement of recent EM bias theory. The geometry of steep near-breaking waves, neglected within current theory, is invoked as one plausible explanation for the observed H-s-independent SSB component. 
PY 2001
PD OCT
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU Amer Geophysical Union
VL 28
IS 20
UT 000171588000031
BP 3947
EP 3950
ID 10275
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