05283nam 22014893a 450 991034667880332120250203235425.09783038976813303897681410.3390/books978-3-03897-681-3(CKB)4920000000094879(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/58853(ScCtBLL)ed559849-fe57-40ff-9dd7-745a639caa42(OCoLC)1126118089(oapen)doab58853(EXLCZ)99492000000009487920250203i20192019 uu engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSatellite Altimetry for Earth SciencesOle Andersen, Sergey Lebedev, Guillaume Ramillien, Frédéric FrappartMDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute2019Basel, Switzerland :MDPI,2019.1 electronic resource (484 p.)9783038976806 3038976806 Satellite altimetry is a radar technique for measuring the topography of the Earth's surface. It was initially designed for measuring the ocean's topography, with reference to an ellipsoid, and for the determination of the marine geoid. Satellite altimetry has provided extremely valuable information on ocean science (e.g., circulation surface geostrophic currents, eddy structures, wave heights, and the propagation of oceanic Kelvin and Rossby waves). With more than 25 years of observations, it is also becoming vital to climate research, providing accurate measurements of sea level variations from regional to global scales. Altimetry has also demonstrated a strong potential for geophysical, cryospheric, and hydrological research and is now commonly used for the monitoring of Arctic and Antarctic ice sheet topography and of terrestrial surface water levels. This book aims to present reviews and recent advances of general interest in the use of radar altimetry in Earth sciences. Manuscripts are related to any aspect of radar altimetry technique or geophysical applications. We also encourage manuscripts resulting from the application of new altimetric technology (SAR, SARin, and Ka band) and improvements expected from missions to be launched in the near future (i.e., SWOT).water levelALESwet path delayCryoSat-2water volume transportwater level time seriesstorm surgefilteringvalidationpolar oceanocean tidessatellite altimetrylake levelclassificationENVISATnumerical modellingPISTACHwater levelsevaporationgeodesywaveformALES retrackerwaveform retrackingunsupervised classificationCryosSat-2 SARpeakinessEnvisatJason-2calibrationSARALACCmicrowave radiometerocean geostrophydata processingfine scaleSWOTorbit decayAral Seageodetic orbitradar altimetryoceanographystreamflowK-medoidsretrackingiceSWOT simulatorcoastal altimetryKa-bandwestern Mediterranean Seatopography of the intertidal zoneFVCOMHY-2Ainland watertide gaugedischargeERS-2marine gravitywet tropospheric correctionSouth China Seastack dataupper layer thicknessdrifting orbithydrologySentinel-3two-layer ocean modelsatellite geodesyFram Straitspace gravityleadssatellite altimeterrange precisionsensor calibrationROMS modelX-TRACKSARInner Niger DeltaGreenland SeaGravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)Mekong BasinaltimetryHong Kong coastsoil moistureArgoSouthern OceanLandsatdielectric permittivitysea surface heightlake volumeAndersen Ole1786746Lebedev SergeyRamillien GuillaumeFrappart FrédéricScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910346678803321Satellite Altimetry for Earth Sciences4318904UNINA