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This paper provides a review on statistical properties of sea level fluctuations, both in global and regional scales. Accurate information on up-to-date dynamics of sea level variability can be obtained from satellite altimetry, in particular from TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 missions. A global-scale analysis is based on a single time series, however a regional-scale investigation employs multiple data sets corresponding to dissimilar geographic locations. The statistical characteristics of long-, medium-, and short-term components of sea level fluctuations computed from TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 altimetric measurements are discussed. The new finding of this paper is that a few statistical measures of sea level variability in central equatorial Pacific reveal similar spatial patterns.
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The research was financed by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education through the grant no. N N526 160136 under leadership of Dr Tomasz Niedzielski at the Space Research Centre of Polish Academy of Sciences. The first author is also supported by EU EuroSITES project. The authors thank the Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin, USA for TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 time series. The authors of R 2.9.0 - A Language and Environment and additional packages are acknowledged.
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Niedzielski, T., Kosek, W. (2012). The Statistical Characteristics of Altimetric Sea Level Anomaly Time Series. In: Kenyon, S., Pacino, M., Marti, U. (eds) Geodesy for Planet Earth. International Association of Geodesy Symposia, vol 136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20338-1_66
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