In 1978, during the last 25 days of the SEASAT mission, the satellite ground tracks repeated
within 2.5 km every 3 days. This yielded eight to nine sets of global collinear altimeter data …

In March 1985 the US Navy altimeter satellite GEOSAT began generating a new data set
with unprecedented spatial and temporal coverage of the global ooeans. The satellite (fig. 1), …

A cyclonic Gulf Stream ring was tracked in the western Sargasso Sea from March 1971 to
April 1972. It moved 700 km southwest at 2 km day −1 and coalesced with the Gulf Stream off …

Physical characteristics of the Alboran Sea in the western Mediterranean were examined in
October 1977 during a survey by ship and aircraft. The main features observed were a …

Two years of GEOSAT altimeter observations are used to investigate the response of sea
level to anomalous westerly wind bursts in the tropical Pacific Ocean before and during the …

Individual Seasat altimeter profiles in the western North Atlantic have been differenced with
the best available geoid model to remove the gravitational component. The resulting sea …

Ever since the first ground-fault detection device was incorporated into a fault interrupting
mechanism, limitations have existed as to how much sustained load unbalance could be …

Repeated Geosat altimeter measurements of sea level at ground track intersections (crossovers)
and along collinear nests of profiles were used to evaluate Geosat data by (1) …

The ocean plays a key role in determining the global climate and its time evolution. To
understand this role and subsequently develop techniques for predicting future climate, one must …

The US Navy satellite Geosat has provided the first altimeter data set that is both long term
and global in coverage. This special issue of JGR‐Oceans demonstrates the high level of …