Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 8, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090764
Keywords
radar altimeter; buoy; wave period retrieval; high-frequency sea wave; mean square slope
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- Coordination Funds for Promoting Aerospace Utilization - Ministry of Education Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
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Wave periods estimated from satellite altimetry data behave differently from those calculated from buoy data, especially in low-wind conditions. In this paper, the geometric mean wave period is calculated from buoy data, rather than the commonly used zero-crossing wave period. The geometric mean wave period uses the fourth moment of the wave frequency spectrum and is related to the mean-square slope of the sea surface measured using altimeters. The values of obtained from buoys and altimeters agree well (root mean square difference: 0.2 s) only when the contribution of high-frequency sea waves is estimated by a wavenumber spectral model to complement the buoy data, because a buoy cannot obtain data from waves having wavelengths that are shorter than the characteristic dimension of the buoy.
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