Title :
Characteristics of significant wave height in China Seas and their adjacent waters from merged altimetry data
Author :
Yang, Jingsong ; Chen, Xiaoyan ; Zhang, Rong ; Wang, Juan ; Huang, Weigen
Author_Institution :
State Key Lab. of Satellite Ocean Environ. Dynamics, Second Inst. of Oceanogr., Hangzhou, China
Abstract :
Significant wave height (SWH) data from T/P, GFO, Jason-1 and Envisat altimeters are merged. The characteristics of SWH, such as the distributions of season average SWH, the probability distributions of different sea scales and the distributions of extreme SWH in 50 and 100 return years for China Seas and their adjacent waters are analyzed based on the merged data.
Keywords :
altimeters; geophysical signal processing; ocean waves; oceanographic regions; oceanographic techniques; remote sensing; sensor fusion; China seas; Envisat altimeter; GFO altimeter; Jason-1 altimeter; T/P altimeter; extreme SWH distribution; merged altimetry data; sea scale probability distribution; season averaged SWH distribution; significant wave height data; Altimetry; Interpolation; Oceans; Probability distribution; Remote sensing; Satellites; Sea surface; Spatial resolution; Springs; Water; One; five; four; three; two;
Conference_Titel :
Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium,2009 IEEE International,IGARSS 2009
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3394-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3395-7
DOI :
10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418126
