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Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-15-1091-2019
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Articles | Volume 15, issue 4
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20 Aug 2019
Research article |  | 20 Aug 2019

On the resolutions of ocean altimetry maps

Maxime Ballarotta, Clément Ubelmann, Marie-Isabelle Pujol, Guillaume Taburet, Florent Fournier, Jean-François Legeais, Yannice Faugère, Antoine Delepoulle, Dudley Chelton, Gérald Dibarboure, and Nicolas Picot

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This study investigates the resolving capabilities of the DUACS gridded products delivered through the CMEMS catalogue. Our method is based on the noise-to-signal ratio approach. While altimeter along-track data resolve scales on the order of a few tens of kilometers, we found that the merging of these along-track data into continuous maps in time and space leads to effective resolution ranging from ~ 800 km wavelength at the Equator to 100 km wavelength at high latitude.
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