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Comparison of Sea Level Data from Topex/Poseidon in-situ Tide-Gauges in the East Sea  

Youn, Yong-Hoon (Korea Global Atmosphere Watch Observatory, Meteorological Research Institute)
Kim, Na-Young (Department of Earth Sciences and Research Institute of Geoinformatics & Geophysics, Sejong University)
Kim, Ki-Hyun (Department of Earth Sciences and Research Institute of Geoinformatics & Geophysics, Sejong University)
Hwang, Jong-Sun (Department of Earth System Sciences, Yonsei University)
Kim, Jeong-Woo (Department of Earth Sciences and Research Institute of Geoinformatics & Geophysics, Sejong University)
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Journal of the Korean earth science society / v.23, no.4, 2002 , pp. 349-356 More about this Journal
Abstract
In an effort to properly assess the validity of spaceborne radar altimeter measurements, we made a direct comparison of two different sea surface heights (SSH) acquired by both Topex/Poseidon (T/P) satellite and in-situ tide-gauges (T/G). This comparative analysis was conducted using the data sets collected from three locations along the eastern coast of Korea which include: Ulleungdo, Pohang, and Sokcho. In the course of the analysis of satellite altimeter, information of SSH was extracted from the T/P MGDR data sets through the application of both atmospheric and geophysical corrections. To compare the T/P data sets in parallel basis, the T/G data sets were averaged using the measured values within the peripheral radius of 55km. When compared among different locations, the compatibility between the two methods was much more significant in an offshore location (Ulleungdo) than the two onshore locations (Pohang, Sokcho). If the low-pass filtered results were compared among the sites, the offshore site exhibited the best correlations between the two methods (correlation coefficient of 0.91) than those of the onshore sites. These large differences in the strength of correlations among different locations are due to the deformation of M2, S2, and K1 tidal components used in the tidal model. In case of the offshore location, the compatibility of the two different methods were improved systematically by the low-pass filtering with an increase of the filtering duration such as up to 200 days.
Keywords
East sea; sea level; Topex/Poseidon altimetry; tide gauges;
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