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ALTIKA3: a high-resolution ocean topography mission

IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2003
The paper presents the current status of the AltiKa3 mission and performance analysis. It mainly focuses on satellite and instrumental studies as phase B of the payload is currently going on. Apart from the combined altimeter and radiometer, this payload also consists of a DORIS plus LRA (Laser Retroreflector Array) orbitography system that will ensure
Patrick Vincent, Eric Thouvenot, Nathalie Steunou, Jacques Verron, P. Bahurel, Christian Le Provost, Pierre-Yves Le Traon, Eric Caubet, Laurent Phalippou   +8 more
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Preparing for fine-scale ocean surface topography observations with the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

2020
<p>The future international Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission, planned for launch in late 2021, will make high-resolution 2D observations of sea-surface height using SAR radar interferometric techniques. SWOT will map the global and coastal oceans up to 77.6° latitude every 21 days over a swath of 120
Rosemary Morrow, Lee-Lueng Fu
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Computed and observed ocean topography: A comparison

Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 1978
The Goddard Space Flight Center's latest Gravity Earth Model, GEM-8, was used to construct a static sea surface. Such a surface corresponds to the surface of an ocean without the time-varying effects of atmospheric pressure, surface wind friction, tides, and currents. It conforms to a surface dictated by the earth's gravitational and rotational forces.
F. O. Vonbun, J. G. Marsh, F. J. Lerch
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Observing the Ocean Surface Topography at High Resolution by the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission

2019
This paper presents the oceanographic objectives and plans of calibration and validation, science investigations and applications for the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) Mission. This international mission, planned for launch in 2021, will make high-resolution observations of the ocean surface topography as a next-generation altimetry mission
Fu, Lee-Lueng, Morrow, Rosemary
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The surface water and ocean topography mission

2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 2018
The Surface Water and Ocean Topography SWOT mission is a partnership between two communities, physical oceanography and hydrology, to share high vertical accuracy and high spatial resolution topography data produced by the science payload, whose principal instrument is a Ka-band radar Interferometer.
Parag Vaze, Said Kaki, Daniel Limonadi, Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Guy Zohar   +4 more
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Topography of the Arctic Ocean

1974
The world’s largest land-locked ocean, the Arctic, occupies a broad elliptical basin, covering an area of about 12 million km2 and containing 13 million km3 of water. Although it constitutes over 3% of the world’s ocean area, the Arctic holds only 1% of its volume; this is accounted for by the broad continental shelves which underlie almost 70% of its ...
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The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM)

SPIE Proceedings, 2008
The Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), also known as Jason-2, will extend into the next decade the continuous climate data record of sea surface height measurements begun in 1992 by the joint NASA/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES) TOPEX/Poseidon mission and continued by the NASA/CNES Jason-1 mission in 2001.
Steven P. Neeck, Parag V. Vaze
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Altimeter For The Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)

SPIE Proceedings, 1984
The evolution of satellite altimetry from SKYLAB-1, GEOS-3, and SEASAT-1 to the current U.S. Navy program, GEOSAT-A, has been accompanied by a continuing improvement in measurement precision along with a better understanding of those factors internal and external to the instrument that act to limit precision. The precision goal of 2 centimeters imposed
John L. MacArthur, Peter V. K. Brown
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Spin-up of a stratified ocean, with topography

Deep Sea Research, 1977
Abstract This paper examines the linear response of a motionless stratified ocean in the presence of large-scale topography aligned north-south to a wind stress turned on at time zero. An unstratified ocean is first examined. Its response differs from the barotropic response discussed by Anderson and Gill (1975, Spin-up of a stratified ocean ...
David L.T. Anderson, Peter D. Killworth
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Evidence for an ancient martian ocean in the topography of deformed shorelines

Nature, 2007
A suite of observations suggests that the northern plains of Mars, which cover nearly one third of the planet's surface, may once have contained an ocean. Perhaps the most provocative evidence for an ancient ocean is a set of surface features that ring the plains for thousands of kilometres and that have been interpreted as a series of palaeoshorelines
J Taylor, Perron, Jerry X, Mitrovica, Michael, Manga, Isamu, Matsuyama, Mark A, Richards   +4 more
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