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University of Colorado Near-real-time altimetry
Overview: Sea Surface height, significant wave height, wind
speed, geostrophic velocity vectors for the following regions; Gulf of
Mexico, Gulf Stream, Bering Sea, Sea of Japan. Global data, subsets and
animations can also be obtained. Data are from a combination of ERS-2
and TOPEX/Poseidon. These data should be used only for mesoscale work
because tilts and biases have been removed from ~1500 km arcs (wrt the
Rapp 95 mean surface). This removes all large scale sea level signals.
Data in GIF, postscript, ASCII are available on the web 24 hrs after acquisition.
Access:
http://www-ccar.colorado.edu/~leben/research.html
Uses: Research, marine applications, education. These products
can also be used by marine operators. Note: The Colorado analysis products
are preferred for mesoscale work because they include data from 2 altimeters
and therefore provide better sampling in time and space.
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