Numerical Analysis of the Sea State Bias for Satellite Altimetry
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Participation in discussions of the current effort being undertaken by the French and US investigators on improving the quality of TOPEX altimeter sea level measurements in the part related to the EM bias correction.
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The sea state bias in altimeter measurements of sea surface height has been investigated by many authors, resulting in several proposed algorithms of the form SSB = epsilonH where H is the significant wave height and epsilon is a nondimensional function of wind and wave parameters. All known algorithms are presently rated. By analyzing the performance of different models we conclude that further progress can hardly be achieved by raising the degree of the polynomial for epsilon(U,H). Physically based approaches employing a small number of adjustable parameters and theoretically justified non-dimensional combinations of external wind and wave factors appear to be more promising.