Auxiliary product references

Mean Sea Surface

Hernandez, F., M.-H. Calvez, J. Dorandeu, Y. Faugère, F. Mertz, and P. Schaeffer, 2000: Surface Moyenne Océanique: Support scientifique à la mission altimétrique Jason-1, et à une mission micro-satellite altimétrique. Contrat Ssalto 2945 - Lot 2 - A.1. Rapport d'avancement. Rapport n° CLS/DOS/NT/00.313, édité par CLS, Ramonville St Agne. pp. 40.
Hernandez, F., and P. Schaeffer, 2000: Altimetric Mean Sea Surfaces and Gravity Anomaly maps inter-comparisons. Rapport n° AVI-NT-011-5242-CLS, ed. CLS, Ramonville St Agne. pp. 48.

Hernandez, F., P.-Y. Le Traon, and R. Morrow, Mapping mesoscale variability of the Azores Current using TOPEX/POSEIDON and ERS-1 altimetry, together with hydrographic and Lagrangian measurements, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 24995-25006, 1995.
Le Traon, P.-Y. and F. Hernandez, Mapping the oceanic mesoscale circulation: validation of satellite altimetry using surface drifters, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Techn., 9, 687-698, 1992.
Rio, M.-H., Combinaison de données in situ, altimétriques et gravimétriques pour l'estimation d'une topographie dynamique moyenne globale, Ed. CLS. PhD Thesis, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III, France), 260pp, 2003.
Rio, M.-H. and F. Hernandez, High frequency response of wind-driven currents measured by drifting buoys and altimetry over the world ocean, J. Geophys. Res., 108, 39-1, 2003.

Rio M.-H., F. Hernandez, A mean dynamic topography computed over the world ocean from altimetry, in situ measurements, and a geoid model, J. Geophys. Res., 109, C12032, 2004.
Rio, M.-H., Schaeffer, P., Lemoine, J.-M., Hernandez, F., Estimation of the ocean Mean Dynamic Topography through the combination of altimetric data, in-situ measurements and GRACE geoid: From global to regional studies, Proceedings of the GOCINA international workshop, Luxembourg, 2005.

Rio M.H., Poulain P-M, Pascal A., Mauri E., Larnicol G., Santoleri R., A mean dynamic topography of the Mediterranean Sea computer from altimeter data, in situ measurements and a general circulation model, J. Mar. Sys., 2005.

Le Grand, P., Impact of the gravity field and steady-state ocean circulation explorer (GOCE) mission on ocean circulation estimates. Volume fluxes in a climatological inverse model of the Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 19597-19610, 2001.
Le Grand, P., H. Mercier, and T. Reynaud, Combining T/P altimetric data with hydrographic data to estimate the mean dynamic topography of the North Atlantic and improve the geoid, Annales Geophysicae, 16, 638-650, 1998.
Le Grand, P., E. J. O. Schrama, and J. Tournadre, An inverse estimate of the dynamic topography of the ocean, Geophys. Res. Let. 30, 1062, 2003.

Levitus, S., R. Burgett, and T. P. Boyer, World ocean atlas 1994 volume 3 : Salinity, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 3, 99 pp, 1994.
Levitus, S. and T. P. Boyer, World ocean atlas 1994 volume 4 : Temperature, NOAA Atlas NESDIS 4, 117 pp, 1994.

Killworth, P. D., OCCAM: the Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling Project, International WOCE Newsletter, 18, 20-22, 1995.
Killworth, P. D., C. Dieterich, C. Le Provost, A. Oschlies, and J. Willebrand, Assimilation of altimetric data and mean sea surface height into an eddy-permitting model of the North Atlantic, Progr. in Oceanography, 48, 313-335, 2001.
Fox, A. D., K. Haines, B. A. de Cuevas, and D. J. Webb, Altimeter assimilation in the OCCAM global model. Part I & II: A twin experiment & TOPEX/POSEIDON and ERS-1 assimilation, J. Mar. Sys., 26, 303-323 & 323-347, 2000.
Troccoli, A. and K. Haines, Use of the Temperature-Salinity relation in data assimilation context, J. Atmos. and Ocean. Tech., 16, 2011-2025, 1999.

Le Provost, C., M.L. Genco, F. Lyard, P. Vincent, and P. Canceil, Spectroscopy of the world ocean tides from a finite element hydrodynamic model, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 24,777-24,797, 1994.
Le Provost, C., F. Lyard, J.M. Molines, M.L. Genco, and F. Rabilloud, A hydrodynamic ocean tide model improved by assimilating a satellite altimeter-derived data set, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 5513-5529, 1998.
Le Provost, C., and P. Vincent, Some tests of precision for a finite element model of ocean tides, J. Comput. Phys., 65, 273-291, 1986.
Lefèvre, F., F.H. Lyard, and C. Le Provost, FES98: a new global tide finite element solution independent of altimetry, Geophys. Res. Let., 27 (17), 2717-2720, 2000.
Lefèvre, F., F. Lyard, C. Le Provost, and E.J.O. Schrama, FES99 : a tide finite element solution assimilating tide gauge and altimetric information, J. Atm. Oceano. Tech., 19 (9), 1345-1356, 2002.

Lyard, F., F. Lefèvre, T. Letellier and O. Francis. Modelling the global ocean tides: a modern insight from FES2004, Ocean Dynamics, 56, 394-415, 2006.

Carrère, L., Etude et modélisation de la réponse haute fréquence de l'océan global aux forçages météorologiques, PhD Thesis, University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III, France).
Carrère, L. and Lyard F., Modelling the barotropic response of the global ocean to atmospheric wind and pressure forcing - comparisons with observations, Geophys. Res. Let., 30(6), pp 1275, 2003.
Dorandeu, J. and P. Y. Le Traon, Effects of Global Mean Atmospheric Pressure Variations on Mean Sea Level Changes from TOPEX/Poseidon, J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 16, 1279-1283, 1999.
Lynch, D.R. and Gray W.G, A wave equation model for finite element tidal computations, Computers and Fluids, 7, pp 207-228, 1979.