a snapshot of sea surface height anomalies from t/p and ers altimeters
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Oceanic mesoscale processes determined from satellite altimetry and the prospects of a wide-swath radar altimeter Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Laboratory California Institute of Technology Ocean Sciences Meeting March 5, 2008 Orlando, Florida. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Oceanic mesoscale processes determined from satellite altimetry and the prospects of a wide-
swath radar altimeter
Lee-Lueng Fu Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Ocean Sciences MeetingMarch 5, 2008
Orlando, Florida
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A snapshot of sea surface height anomalies from T/P and ERS altimeters
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T=0
T= -7 days
T= -14 days
T= 7 days
T= 14 days
Space-time Maximum Cross-Correlation Analysis
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Eddy propagation velocity (zonal)
km/day
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Eddy propagation velocity (meridional)
km/day
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10 km/day
Eddy Propagation velocity and SSH standard deviation: the South Atlantic
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Eddy propagation velocity with bathymetry: the Gulf Stream
10 km/day
Bermuda
New England Seamount chain
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Eddy propagation velocity with bathymetry: the Southern Ocean
Kerguelen Plateau
10 km/day
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altimetry
ECCO-2
Eastward velocity (km/day)
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Eddy zonal propagation speed
km/d
ay
altimetry
ECCO model
First mode Rossby waves
Latitude
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22 )0()( CdssCL
Correlation of SSH time series as function of spatial separation
A spatial scale computed as follows:
km
L= 210 km
SSH wavenumber spectra (Ducet et al. 2000)
T/P along-track
T/P-ERS mapped
T/P mapped
Overlapping at 150 km
Spatial scales of the AVISO T/P-ERS merged data
Scales shorter than 200 km are not resolved.
210 km
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90% of the ocean’s kinetic energy is contained at scales not well resolved by a nadir-looking altimeter
100 km
ground tracks of Jason (thick) and T/P (thin) Tandem Mission
100 km scale eddies 10 km scale eddies
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Altimetry SSH wavenumber spectrum
Wavenumber (cycles/km)
Pow
er d
ensi
ty (
cm2 /
cycl
es/k
m)
Noise level of SWOT
Jason pass 132 (147 cycle average)
Instrument noise
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Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission (SWOT)