Coastal Altimetry

Selected Case Studies from Asian Shelf Seas

1st Edition - June 27, 2023
Editors: Stefano Vignudelli, Nurul Hazrina Idris
Language: English
Paperback ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 7 0 8 - 7
eBook ISBN:
9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 8 5 7 1 - 0

Coastal Altimetry: Selected Case Studies from Asian Shelf Seas provides information on developments over the past decade in the processing of remotely sensed altimetry in coastal a… Read more

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Coastal Altimetry: Selected Case Studies from Asian Shelf Seas provides information on developments over the past decade in the processing of remotely sensed altimetry in coastal areas, with an overview of expected errors and where they stem from, along with remaining gaps in processing. Challenges covered include the retracking of the altimetric signal to account for land contamination, tropospheric water corrections, and tidal model improvements, along with the pros and cons of widely available products. Additional chapters provide recent research in the regional seas of Asia and cover variability, dynamics, predictability and prediction, impacts of extreme events, effects to ecosystems, and more.

This book offers readers a dataset that can illuminate our understanding of the propagation of planetary boundary waves that have a significant sea level signal in near coastal regions. As such, researchers and students who have a foundation in satellite altimetry and want to know the latest development of open ocean and coastal satellite altimetry, especially in Asian coastal regions, will benefit from this book.

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Title page
Table of Contents
Copyright
List of contributors
Chapter 1. Satellite altimetry and ocean circulation: from open ocean to the coast
1. Introduction
2. Evolution of satellite altimetry application in ocean circulation studies
3. Technology advancements in coastal altimetry
4. Coastal altimetry data products
5. Spatial and temporal monitoring from satellite altimetry
6. Coastal ocean dynamics in maritime continent and marginal seas
Chapter 2. The technical progress and achievements of coastal altimetry waveform retracking over the Asia seas
1. Introduction
2. The impact of coastal topography on altimetric waveforms
3. Waveforms classification technique
4. Current technical progress and achievements on waveform retracking
5. Summary
Chapter 3. Sea-level change in the Southeast Asia seas: from satellite observations to numerical modeling
1. Introduction
2. Data and model
3. Sea-level fingerprints
4. Sea-level dynamics
5. Conclusion
Chapter 4. Tides modeling using satellite altimetry across Southeast Asian seas
1. Introduction
2. Tidal aliasing in satellite altimetry
3. Tidal harmonic analysis
4. Satellite-derived tidal constituents
5. Assessment of SDTC
6. Summary
Chapter 5. Satellite altimetry in Indonesian waters: accuracy assessment and its applications
1. Introduction
2. Altimeter data application within the Indonesian
3. Coastal altimetry in Indonesian waters
4. Conclusions
Chapter 6. Impact of sea-level rise on shrimp farming: case study in East Java, Indonesia
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Chapter 7. Sea surface height and significant wave height estimations in the calm semienclosed Celebes Sea
1. Introduction
2. Subwaveform retracker for footprints with homogeneous sea surface roughness
3. Dataset
4. Results and validation
5. Discussion
6. Summary
Chapter 8. Satellite altimetry application case studies from the northern Indian Ocean
1. Case study 1. Altimetry applications for marine fishery resource management
2. Case study 2: Implications of sea-level rise on coastal erosion
Chapter 9. Application of satellite altimetry for storm surge research and simulations along the coast of China
1. Introduction
2. Storm surges: definition and general causes
3. Storm surges on the coast of China
4. Traditional ways for storm surge monitoring and forecasting
5. Satellite altimetry
6. Applications for storm surges on the coast of China
7. Prospect of storm surge monitoring from satellite altimetry
Chapter 10. Influence of the El Niño Southern Oscillation to the interannual sea-level variability in the Philippine Sea
1. Introduction
2. Materials and methods
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
Chapter 11. Analysis of long-term sea level fluctuation patterns and influences of climatic indices around the Korean Peninsula through dimensionality reduction of altimeter data
1. Introduction
2. Data and methods
3. Results
4. Conclusions
Chapter 12. Year-to-year variations in the third branch of the Tsushima warm current in the Japan sea
1. Introduction
2. Data
3. Variations in the TBTWC path
4. Discussion
5. Summary
Index

Stefano Vignudelli

Dr. Stefano Vignudelli is a senior scientist employed at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council) in Pisa, Italy. He has over 25 years of scientific experience in the area of satellite remote sensing (radar altimetry, in particular) for studying coastal and inland environments (water level variability, in particular). Most significant accomplishment include leading development of satellite radar altimetry in the coastal zone to provide improved measurements for sea level research and applications. He is actively involved in international cooperation through joint projects, exchange visits, attendance at workshops and capacity building. He is also co-author of five chapters of books and around 100 publications (41 in peer-reviewed journals). He is coordinator/partner/evaluator of scientific projects. He is member of organizing/scientific committees and international societies. He is also an associate editor for Elsevier Advances in Space Research Journal in the area of satellite oceanography and vice-president elect of PORSEC association.

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Senior Scientist, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (National Research Council), Pisa, Italy

Nurul Hazrina Idris

Dr. Nurul Hazrina Idris is currently a Senior Lecturer of Department of Geoinformation, Faculty of Build Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM); a Leader of Tropical Resource Mapping Research Group, UTM; and Associate Fellow of the Geoscience and Digital Earth Centre (INSTeG), UTM. She held several positions as Honorary Staff at the Climate Change Research Centre of Excellent, the University of New South Wales, Australia (2014); and the University of Newcastle, Australia (2018-2019). She received the prestigious award of Endeavour Fellowship 2018 from the Ministry of Education and Training Australia to conduct a post-doctorate study at Newcastle University for 6 month. She has led several national and international collaborative research in the past 18 years in remote sensing and its related technology applications. Her research interest is on coastal altimetry, physical oceanography, sea level rise and climate change, ocean renewable energy, and artificial intelligence in remote sensing.

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Senior Lecturer, Department of Geoinformation, Faculty of Build Environment and Surveying, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Malaysia

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