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Resolution Needed for an Adequate Determination of the Mean Ocean Circulation from Altimetry and an Improved Geoid 总被引:4,自引:0,他引:4
The sea surface topography observed by satellite altimetry is a combination of the geoid and of the ocean dynamic topography.
Satellite altimetry has thus the potential to supply quasi-global maps of mean sea surface heights from which the mean geostrophic
surface ocean currents can be derived, provided that the geoid is known with a sufficient absolute accuracy. At present, however,
given the limited accuracy of the best available geoid, altimetric mean sea surface topographies have been derived only up
to degree 15 or so, i.e. for wavelengths of approximately 2000 km and larger. CHAMP, GRACE, and the future GOCE missions are
dedicated to the improvement of the Earth's gravity field from space. Several studies have recently investigated the impact
of these improvements for oceanography, concluding to reductions of uncertainties on the oceanic flux estimates as large as
a factor of 2 in the regions of intense an narrow currents. The aim of this paper is to focus on what are the typical horizontal
scales of the mean dynamic topography of the ocean, and to compare their characteristics to the error estimates expected from
altimetry and these future geoids. It gives also an illustration of the oceanic features that will be resolved by the combination
of altimetry and the GRACE and GOCE geoids. It further reassesses the very demanding requirements in term of accuracy and
resolution agreed in the design of these new gravity missions for ocean science applications. The present study relies on
recent very high-resolution numerical Ocean General Circulation Model simulations.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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