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SCIENCE - Science Objectives
Ten plus years of scientific discovery by TOPEX/Poseidon have broadened its original
list of science objectives. Jason-1 and its successor missions are now expected to:
- Measure global sea-height
change and provide a continuous view of changing global
ocean surface topography
- Calculate the transport of heat,
water mass, nutrients, and salt by the oceans
- Increase understanding
of ocean circulation
and seasonal changes and how the general ocean circulation changes
through time
- Provide estimates
of significant wave height
and wind speeds over
the ocean
- Test how we compute ocean circulation caused by blowing winds
- Improve the knowledge
of ocean tides and develop
open- ocean tide models
- Improve forecasting
of climatic events like
El Niño and of global
climate in general
- Describe the nature of ocean dynamics and develop a global view of Earth's oceans
- Monitor the variation of global mean sea level and its relation to global climate change
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