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Low Frequency Change of Sea Level in the North Atlantic Ocean as Observed with Satellite Altimetry

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Satellite Altimetry for Geodesy, Geophysics and Oceanography

Part of the book series: International Association of Geodesy Symposia ((IAG SYMPOSIA,volume 126))

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The TOPEX/POSEIDON and ERS-1/2 satellite altimetry missions have revealed significant low-frequency changes of sea level in the North Atlantic Ocean. This work describes the changes that occurred from 1993 to 2001. Decomposition of total variance in three main modes of variability - annual, inter-annual and high frequency (basically eddies) - has been performed. As the analysis has shown, the annual and inter-annual signals are responsible for a greatest portion of variability in the northern North Atlantic outside the North Atlantic Current and its branches. In the areas where the inter-annual change is found to be significant, the sea level change followed the North Atlantic Oscillation index when it changed from its positive phase to negative in winter of 1995 - 1996 and 2000–2001.

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  1. Physical Oceanography Department, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, Texel, The Netherlands

    Denis L. Volkov & Hendrik M. van Aken

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

    Cheinway Hwang

  2. Geodetic Science, The Ohio State University, 2070 Neil Avenue, Columbus, Ohio, 43210-1275, USA

    C. K. Shum

  3. School of Geodesy and Geomatics, Wuhan University, 129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan, 430079, China

    Jiancheng Li

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Volkov, D.L., van Aken, H.M. (2003). Low Frequency Change of Sea Level in the North Atlantic Ocean as Observed with Satellite Altimetry. In: Hwang, C., Shum, C.K., Li, J. (eds) Satellite Altimetry for Geodesy, Geophysics and Oceanography. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18861-9_20

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