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Satellite Altimetry Applications in the Barents and White Seas

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The Barents and White Seas are the seas of the Arctic Ocean. Today complicated hydrodynamic, tidal, ice, and meteorological regimes of these seas may be investigated on the basis of remote sensing data, specifically of satellite altimetry data. Results of calibration and validation of satellite altimetry measurements (sea surface height and sea surface wind speed) and comparison with regional tidal model show that this type of data may be successfully used in scientific research and in monitoring of the environment. Complex analysis of the tidal regime of the Barents and White Seas and comparison between global and regional tidal models show advantages of regional tidal model for use in tidal correction of satellite altimetry data. Examples of using the sea level data in studying long-term variability of the Barents and White Seas are presented. Interannual variability of sea ice edge position is estimated on the basis of altimetry data.

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Abbreviations

ALTICORE:

ALTImetry for COastal REgions

AVISO:

Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellites Oceanographic data

DBMS:

Database Management System

GC RAS:

Geophysical Center of Russian Academy of Sciences

GDR:

Geophysical Data Record

GFO:

Geosat Follow-On

GSFC:

Goddard Space Flight Center NASA

HMRC:

Hydrometeorological Research Center of Russian Federation

IGDR:

Interim Geophysical Data Record

ISADB:

Integrated Satellite Altimetry Data Base

J1:

Jason-1

JPL:

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

LSA:

Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry

MGDR-B:

Merged Geophysical Data Record Generation B

MS:

Meteorological Station

NASA:

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NCAR:

National Center for Atmospheric Research

NCEP:

National Center for Environmental Prediction

NESDIS:

NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service

NOAA:

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

PODAAC:

Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

RADS:

Radar Altimeter Database System

SLA:

Sea Level Anomaly

SSH:

Sea Surface Height

SSHA:

Sea Surface Height Anomaly

T/P:

TOPEX/Poseidon

TG:

Tide Gauge

WMO:

World Meteorological Organization

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Acknowledgements

The work was supported by International Project INTAS No 05-1000008-7927 (ALTICORE) and by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (Grants No 06-05-64871, No 07-05-00415, and No 08-05-97016).

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  1. Geophysical Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, 3 Molodezhnaya Str., 119296, Moscow, Russia

    S. A. Lebedev, D. P. Medvedev & S. N. Shauro

  2. P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 36 Nakhimovsky Pr., 117997, Moscow, Russia

    A. G. Kostianoy, A. I. Ginzburg & N. A. Sheremet

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Lebedev, S.A., Kostianoy, A.G., Ginzburg, A.I., Medvedev, D.P., Sheremet, N.A., Shauro, S.N. (2011). Satellite Altimetry Applications in the Barents and White Seas. In: Vignudelli, S., Kostianoy, A., Cipollini, P., Benveniste, J. (eds) Coastal Altimetry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12796-0_15

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