CIMA   09099
CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES DEL MAR Y LA ATMOSFERA
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
ON THE ACCURACY OF SATELLITE ALTIMETRY DATA OVER CONTINENTAL SHELVES: A CASE STUDY IN SOUTHEASTERN SOUTH AMERICA
Autor/es:
SARACENO, M.; SIMIONATO, C. G.
Lugar:
Riva del Garda
Reunión:
Workshop; 6th Coastal Altimetry Workshop; 2012
Institución organizadora:
International Coastal Altimetry Community
Resumen:
High standard deviation (STD) values of Sea
Surface Height (SSH) of both gridded and along track satellite products in the Río
de la Plata estuary have been usually associated to the fact that
non-appropriate corrections have been applied to altimetry data. In this work
we first estimate the accuracy of the latest generation of gridded altimetry
data produced by AVISO (Archiving,
Validation and Interpretation of Satellite Oceanographic data) and
by CTOH (Centre de Topographie des Oceans et de l'Hydrosphere) along the T/P
and Jason 1 tracks by comparison with in-situ data. Decomposition in Empirical
Orthogonal Functions (EOF) of the seasonal cycle suggests that the first two
modes of variability correspond to the first two modes found with SST satellite
data in the region (Simionato et al., 2010). The first mode is related to the
radiative cycle while the second mode displays reflects the effect of the winds
on the plume. Interannual variability is also observed. On intraseasonal time
scales negative anomalies along the northern coast of the estuary are observed,
which seem to be related to upwelling events also identified on SST data.