Altimeter observations of sea-level variability off the west coast of North America

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作者
Cherniawsky, JY [1 ]
Foreman, MGG
Crawford, WR
Beckley, BD
机构
[1] Fisheries & Oceans Canada, Inst Ocean Sci, Sidney, BC V8L 4B2, Canada
[2] NASA, Raytheon ITSS, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
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10.1080/01431160310001592210
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TP7 [遥感技术];
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081102 ; 0816 ; 081602 ; 083002 ; 1404 ;
摘要
A combination of careful harmonic analysis and high-resolution numerical modelling of tides in altimeter data from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-2 satellites allows detailed calculation of seasonal and interannual variability of sea level in coastal areas of the north-east Pacific Ocean. These calculations show large changes in sea level in marginal seas during the 1997-8 El Nino and La Nina events, as well as providing information on the origin and life cycle of large anticyclonic eddies, observed to be generated off the west coast of Canada.
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