Dynamics of the Black Sea Upper Layer Based on Satellite Data: Gridded Altimetry versus High Resolution IR Images
Journal: Physical Oceanography
Year: 2019

Purpose. During more than 20 years, very detailed notions of the sea level variability in the World Ocean and its particular parts have been obtained based on satellite altimetry observations. Their advantage consists in possibility of a fairly rapid assessment of the surface currents' velocities at meso scales. The alternative method for studying surface dynamics is motion estimation using a sequence of visible/infrared (IR) satellite images of the sea surface. The purpose of the present study