Optimizing ?0 information from the Jason-2 altimeter
A radar altimeter's normalized backscatter, ?0, is used in many oceanographic applications, to infer values of wind speed, wind stress, rain rate and the presence of biogenic slicks. The waveform retracker used to estimate the key geophysical variables for the altimeters on the Jason-1 and Jaso...
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