The Sea surface KInematics Multiscale monitoring (SKIM) satellite mission is designed to
explore ocean surface current and waves. This includes tropical currents, notably the poorly …

Ocean current is one of the major drivers of water mass, energy, and biogeochemical cycles
in the global ocean–atmosphere boundary layer and also a key variable in the formation of …

Internal gravity waves (IGWs) and balanced motions (BMs) with scales< 100‐km capture
most of the vertical velocity field in the upper ocean. They have, however, different impacts …

Satellite observations of the last two decades have led to a major breakthrough emphasizing
the existence of a strongly energetic mesoscale turbulent eddy field in all the oceans. This …

We propose a satellite mission that uses a near-nadir Ka-band Doppler radar to measure
surface currents, ice drift and ocean waves at spatial scales of 40 km and more, with …

Ocean surface currents and winds are tightly coupled essential climate variables, and, given
their short time scales, observing them at the same time and resolution is of great interest …

Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

Direct sensing of total ocean surface currents with microwave Doppler signals is a growing
topic of interest for oceanography, with relevance to several new ocean mission concepts …

Multi-year field measurements of sea surface Ka-band dual-co-polarized (vertical transmit–
receive polarization (VV) and horizontal transmit–receive polarization (HH)) radar Doppler …

High-resolution satellite images of ocean color and sea surface temperature reveal an
abundance of ocean fronts, vortices and filaments at scales below 10 km but measurements …