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Figure 3. Measurements of Jason-1 and Envisat for the year 2011, totally $653$ in cross-over points. Scatter diagrams for a) – significant wave height; b) – normalized radar cross-section; c) – single-track estimates of wave periods by the model B14; d) – "full" estimate of wave period $T_{\rm B14}^{\rm full}$ vs mean-over spectrum wave period $T_{\rm G03}$ of the model G03 in crossover points; e, f) – histograms of the ratio $\mu_{\rm tr}/\mu_{\rm full}$ (single-track to the full-gradient estimates) for Envisat (left) and Jason-1 (right) in crossover points. Solid line shows {distribution for the probabilistic model (12)} of the measured single-track $\mu_{\rm track}$ with evenly distributed angles between satellite track and wave height spatial gradient $\nabla H_s$.

 
Citation: Badulin S., V. Grigorieva, A. Gavrikov, V. Geogjaev, M. Krinitskiy, M. Markina (2018), Wave steepness from satellite altimetry for wave dynamics and climate studies, Russ. J. Earth Sci., 18, ES5005, doi:10.2205/2018ES000638.
 

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