Abstract's details

SAR mode altimetry and sea state bias

Clare Bellingham (National Oceanography Centre, United Kingdom)

CoAuthors

Christine Gommenginger (National Oceanography Centre, UK); Meric Srokosz (National Oceanography Centre, UK)

Event: 2015 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting

Session: Instrument Processing: Corrections

Presentation type: Type Oral

Contribution: PDF file

Abstract:

SAR mode altimetry over the ocean was demonstrated for the first time in orbit with the ESA Cryosat-2 mission. Scientific studies since then have convincingly established the improved performance of SAR altimetry in terms of reduced altimetric noise, finer along-track spatial resolution and improved performance near land. Currently, no solution is available for sea state bias in SAR mode, and there remain uncertainties about the sensitivity of SAR mode altimetry to long ocean surface waves (swell) and their direction of propagation. Here some initial investigations of these issues are presented.
 

Oral presentation show times:

Room Start Date End Date
Grand Ballroom 1 Tue, Oct 20 2015,14:00 Tue, Oct 20 2015,14:15
Clare Bellingham
National Oceanography Centre
United Kingdom
crbilhm@noc.ac.uk