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Creator:: Schlax, Michael G., Chelton, Dudley B., and Freilich, Michael H.
Abstract:: Sampling patterns and sampling errors from various scatterometer datasets are examined. Four single and two tandem scatterometer mission scenarios are considered. The single scatterometer missions are ERS (with a single, narrow swath), NSCAT and ASCAT (dual swaths), and QuikSCAT (a single, broad swath obtained from the SeaWinds instrument). The two...
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Full Text:: atot_18_509.1014_1036.tp 1014 VOLUME 18J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H

Creator:: Schlax, Michael G. and Chelton, Dudley B.
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Full Text:: Six Major Tidal Constituents Tide days deg •o, deg •, deg M 2 317.13 1.25 W 8.00 W 1.81 E S 2

Creator:: Schlax, Michael G. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: Alias periods and wavelengths for the M2, S2, N2, K1, O1, and P1 tidal constituents are calculated for TOPEX/POSEIDON. Alias wavelengths calculated in previous studies are shown to be in error, and a correct method is presented. With the exception of the K1 constituent, all of these tidal aliases for...
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Full Text:: Aliased tidal errors in TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface height data Michael G. Schlax and Dudley B. Chelton

Creator:: Schlax, Michael G. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: Mean-squared errors of surface geostrophic velocity estimates from the crossover and parallel-track methods are calculated for altimeters in the Ocean Topography Experiment (TOPEX)/Poseidon and Jason orbits. As part of the crossover method analysis, the filtering properties and errors of cross-track speed estimates are examined. Velocity estimates from both the crossover...
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Full Text:: atot_20_811.1196_1211.tp 1196 VOLUME 20J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B. and Schlax, Michael G.
Abstract:: A technique previously developed for assessing the effects of sampling errors on sea surface height (SSH) fields constructed from satellite altimeter data is extended to include measurement errors, thus providing estimates of the total mean-squared error of the SSH fields. The measurement error contribution becomes an important consideration with the...
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Full Text:: atot_20_904.1276_1302.tp 1276 VOLUME 20J O U R N A L O F A T M O S P H

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B. and Schlax, Michael C.
Abstract:: A formalism is presented for quantifying the sampling error of an arbitrary linear estimate of a time-averaged quantity constructed from a time series of irregularly spaced observations at a fixed location. The method is applicable to any irregularly sampled time series; it is applied here to satellite observations of chlorophyll...
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Full Text:: of Chlorophyll Concentration DUDLEY B. CHELTON AND MICHAEL C. SCHLAX College of Oceanography

Creator:: Schlax, Michael G. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: A simple statistic is derived for quantifying the potential for the aliasing of tidal errors in a given linear estimate of sea surface height constructed from altimeter data. The existence of M2 tidal constituent errors in Geosat data processed in the traditional way (i.e., with orbit errors removed using least...
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Full Text:: tidal errors in altimeter height measurements Michael G. Schlax and Dudley B. Chelton College of

Creator:: Schlax, Michael G. and Chelton, Dudley B.
Abstract:: Westward propagating Gaussian eddies with statistical characteristics estimated from altimeter observations but with purely random starting locations and times produce striated features in time-averaged maps of zonal velocity. The striations in these simulations have magnitudes and meridional scales comparable to those reported from time-averaged altimeter observations and model output in...
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Full Text:: of quasi-zonal jets in the ocean Michael G. Schlax1 and Dudley B. Chelton1 Received 15 September

Creator:: Gaube, Peter, Chelton, Dudley B., Samelson, Roger M., Schlax, Michael G., and O'Neill, Larry W.
Abstract:: Three mechanisms for self-induced Ekman pumping in the interiors of mesoscale ocean eddies are investigated. The first arises from the surface stress that occurs because of differences between surface wind and ocean velocities, resulting in Ekman upwelling and downwelling in the cores of anticyclones and cyclones, respectively. The second mechanism...
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Full Text:: ,* DUDLEY B. CHELTON, ROGER M. SAMELSON, MICHAEL G. SCHLAX, AND LARRY W. O’NEILL College of Earth, Ocean

Creator:: Chelton, Dudley B., Esbensen, Steven K., Schlax, Michael G., Thum, Nicolai, Freilich, Michael H., Wentz, Frank J., Gentemann, Chelle L., McPhaden, Michael J., and Schopf, Paul S.
Abstract:: Satellite measurements of surface wind stress from the QuikSCAT scatterometer and sea surface temperature (SST) from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Microwave Imager are analyzed for the three-month period 21 July–20 October 1999 to investigate ocean–atmosphere coupling in the eastern tropical Pacific. Oceanic tropical instability waves (TIWs) with periods of...
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Full Text:: clim_14_403.1479_1498.tp 1 APRIL 2001 1479C H E L T O N E T A L . q

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