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Over the past several years, determination of the sea surface topography using satellite altimetry has been greatly improved due to the implementation of a technique which simultaneously solves for the sea surface topography, the gravity field of the Earth, and the satellite orbit [Tapley et al.,1988; Marsh et al., 1989; Nerem,1989; Engelis and Knudsen; 1989]. The sea surface topography, ζ, is defined as the deviation of the ocean surface from the geoid due to the geostrophic component of the ocean currents.
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Nerem, R.S., Tapley, B.D., Shum, C.K. (1990). A General Ocean Circulation Model Determined in a Simultaneous Solution with the Earth’s Gravity Field. In: Sünkel, H., Baker, T. (eds) Sea Surface Topography and the Geoid. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 104. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7098-7_18
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