Evaluation of TOPEX and basin-wide Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Tropical Atmosphere Ocean sea surface topographies and derived geostrophic currents

C. Menkes; J. P. Boulanger; A. J. Busalacchi

doi:10.1029/95jc03026

Evaluation of TOPEX and basin-wide Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Tropical Atmosphere Ocean sea surface topographies and derived geostrophic currents

C. Menkes, J. P. Boulanger, A. J. Busalacchi

UCAR Pres Dept

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Fields of TOPEX-derived sea level anomalies are validated against and compared with fields of Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TOGA-TAO) dynamic height anomalies. At periods longer than 35 days, TOPEX sea level anomalies compared extremely well with TOGA-TAO dynamic height anomalies throughout the whole basin. Zonal geostrophic current anomalies are then derived from both data sets and validated against in situ current meter measurements at the equator. Despite localized discrepancies, basin-wide TOGA-TAO geostrophic currents compare reasonably well with TOPEX-derived geostrophic currents. -from Authors

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	25,087-25,099
Journal	Journal of Geophysical Research
Volume	100
Issue number	C12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1029/95jc03026
State	Published - 1995

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Evaluation of TOPEX and basin-wide Tropical Ocean and Global Atmosphere-Tropical Atmosphere Ocean sea surface topographies and derived geostrophic currents

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