Badulin, S.; Kostianoy, A.; Shabanov, P.; Sharmar, V.; Grigorieva, V.; Lebedev, S. Self- and Inter-Crossover Points of Jasons’ Missions as New Essential Add-on of Satellite Altimetry in the Sub-Arctic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 658.
Badulin, S.; Kostianoy, A.; Shabanov, P.; Sharmar, V.; Grigorieva, V.; Lebedev, S. Self- and Inter-Crossover Points of Jasons’ Missions as New Essential Add-on of Satellite Altimetry in the Sub-Arctic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 658.
Badulin, S.; Kostianoy, A.; Shabanov, P.; Sharmar, V.; Grigorieva, V.; Lebedev, S. Self- and Inter-Crossover Points of Jasons’ Missions as New Essential Add-on of Satellite Altimetry in the Sub-Arctic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Remote Sens.2021, 13, 658.
Badulin, S.; Kostianoy, A.; Shabanov, P.; Sharmar, V.; Grigorieva, V.; Lebedev, S. Self- and Inter-Crossover Points of Jasons’ Missions as New Essential Add-on of Satellite Altimetry in the Sub-Arctic Seas and the Southern Ocean. Remote Sens. 2021, 13, 658.
Abstract
Satellite altimetry is successfully developing during the past three decades for the sea level, ocean dynamics, coastal oceanography, planetary waves, ocean tides, wind and wave, ice cover, Earth’s gravity field, and climatology research. We propose a new essential add-on of satellite altimetry related to the peculiarities of the orbits of the Topex/Poseidon and Jasons’ satellite missions which were not mentioned before in the scientific publications. Derived subsets of “self-crossover” and “inter-crossover” points in sub-polar latitudes are discussed in detail in the context of water exchange, and wind-wave dynamics, and potential challenges to be solved. The relatively short time lags between measurements at these crossovers provide additional information on anomalies of magnitudes and directions of ocean currents, and characteristics of wind-driven waves. Resulting data snapshots with constant space and time intervals can be regarded as time series of virtual buoys, an analog of continuous buoy measurements of the sea level, wind speed, and wave height. Areas of the World Ocean where these specific crossovers occur are described in the context of water exchange, wind wave studies, and potential challenges to be solved. The value of these special crossovers for studies and monitoring of the sub-polar seas is illustrated by a case study.
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