Estimating the North-Atlantic mean surface-topography by inversion of hydrographic and lagrangian data

Type Article
Date 1992
Language English
Author(s) Le Traon Pierre-Yves, Mercier HerleORCID
Source Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier Villars), 1992 , Vol. 15 , N. 5 , P. 563-566
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Abstract The non-linear inverse model described in Mercier et al. (1992) is used to estimate the mean surface topography of the North Atlantic and its formal error. The surface is based on a large hydrographic and Lagrangian data set and has spatial resolution of 2-degrees in latitude by 2.5-degrees in longitude. The formal error is between 4 and 8 cm. Contrary to previous estimations, this takes into account the errors with regard both to the density field and to the estimation of the velocity field at a reference level.
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Le Traon Pierre-Yves, Mercier Herle (1992). Estimating the North-Atlantic mean surface-topography by inversion of hydrographic and lagrangian data. Oceanologica Acta, 15(5), 563-566. Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00079/18977/