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

Volume

2

fYear

2009

fDate

12-17 July 2009

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5418126

Filename

5418126