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Global marine gravity from retracked Geosat and ERS-1 altimetry: Ridge segmentation versus spreading rate by Sandwell, David T., Smith, Walter H. F.

“…Three approaches are used to reduce the error in the satellite‐derived marine gravity anomalies. First, we have retracked the raw waveforms from the ERS‐1 and…”
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New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure by Sandwell, David T., Müller, R. Dietmar, Smith, Walter H. F., Garcia, Emmanuel, Francis, Richard

“…Gravity models are powerful tools for mapping tectonic structures, especially in the deep ocean basins where the topography remains unmapped by ships or is…”
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Toward 1-mGal accuracy in global marine gravity from CryoSat-2, Envisat, and Jason-1 by Sandwell, David, Garcia, Emmanuel, Soofi, Khalid, Wessel, Paul, Chandler, Michael, Smith, Walter H. F

“…More than 60% of the Earth's land and shallow marine areas are covered by > 2 km of sediments and sedimentary rocks, with the thickest accumulations on rifted…”
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Towards the Mitigation of Discrepancies in Sea Surface Parameters Estimated from Low- and High-Resolution Satellite Altimetry by Buchhaupt, Christopher K., Egido, Alejandro, Vandemark, Douglas, Smith, Walter H. F., Fenoglio, Luciana, Leuliette, Eric

“…In this study, we present an extension to existing numerical retrackers of synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) altimetry signals. To our knowledge at the time of…”
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Resource Letter ALC-1: Advanced Laboratory Courses by Smith, Walter F.

“…Advanced laboratory courses play several essential roles in the undergraduate curriculum, including the development of students into independent…”
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Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings by Walter H. F. Smith, Sandwell, David T.

“…A digital bathymetric map of the oceans with a horizontal resolution of 1 to 12 kilometers was derived by combining available depth soundings with…”
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Photoconductivity of Self-Assembled Porphyrin Nanorods by Schwab, Alexander D, Smith, Deirdre E, Bond-Watts, Brooks, Johnston, Danvers E, Hone, James, Johnson, Alan T, de Paula, Julio C, Smith, Walter F

“…The photoconductivity of nanorods self-assembled from meso-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphine is described. The nanorods are insulating in the dark. Upon…”
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A global positioning system-based climatology for the total electron content in the ionosphere by Scharroo, Remko, Smith, Walter H. F.

“…The total electron content (TEC) in the ionosphere is an important factor in the propagation of radio waves. Since 1998 the coverage global positioning system…”
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Toward the Development of Peptide Nanofilaments and Nanoropes as Smart Materials by Wagner, Daniel E., Phillips, Charles L., Ali, Wasif M., Nybakken, Grant E., Crawford, Emily D., Schwab, Alexander D., Smith, Walter F., Fairman, Robert, DeGrado, William F.

“…Protein design studies using coiled coils have illustrated the potential of engineering simple peptides to self-associate into polymers and networks. Although…”
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Mesoscale ocean dynamics observed by satellite altimeters in non-repeat orbits by Smith, Walter H. F., Scharroo, Remko

“…We compare sea surface height anomalies observed by satellite altimeters in exact repeat mission orbits to anomalies observed by altimeters in geodetic or…”
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Waveform Aliasing in Satellite Radar Altimetry by Smith, Walter H. F., Scharroo, Remko

“…The full deramp pulse compression scheme employed by satellite radar altimeters digitizes each radar echo at a sampling rate matched to the chirp bandwidth…”
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Photoconductivity of Self-Assembled Nanotapes Made from meso-Tri(4-sulfonatophenyl)monophenylporphine by Yeats, Andrew L, Schwab, Alexander D, Massare, Brittany, Johnston, Danvers E, Johnson, Alan T, de Paula, Julio C, Smith, Walter F

“…meso-Tri(4-sulfonatophenyl)monophenylporphine (TPPS3) has one fewer sulfonate group than meso-tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphine (TPPS4), which has been shown to…”
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Arctic Sea-Ice Surface Elevation Distribution from NASA’s Operation IceBridge ATM Data by Yi, Donghui, Egido, Alejandro, Smith, Walter H. F., Connor, Laurence, Buchhaupt, Christopher, Zhang, Dexin

“…In this paper, we characterize the sea-ice elevation distribution by using NASA’s Operation IceBridge (OIB) Airborne Topographic Mapper (ATM) L1B data over the…”
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How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness by Müller, R. Dietmar, Whittaker, Joanne M, Roest, Walter R, Wessel, Paul, Smith, Walter H. F

“…Seafloor roughness varies considerably across the world's ocean basins and is fundamental to controlling the circulation and mixing of heat in the ocean and…”
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Improved Bathymetric Prediction Using Geological Information: SYNBATH by Sandwell, David T., Goff, John A., Gevorgian, Julie, Harper, Hugh, Kim, Seung‐Sep, Yu, Yao, Tozer, Brook, Wessel, Paul, Smith, Walter H. F.

“…To date, ∼20% of the ocean floor has been surveyed by ships at a spatial resolution of 400 m or better. The remaining 80% has depth predicted from satellite…”
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The Benefits of the Ka-Band as Evidenced from the SARAL/AltiKa Altimetric Mission: Scientific Applications by Verron, Jacques, Bonnefond, Pascal, Aouf, Lofti, Birol, Florence, Bhowmick, Suchandra, Calmant, Stéphane, Conchy, Taina, Crétaux, Jean-François, Dibarboure, Gérald, Dubey, A., Faugère, Yannice, Guerreiro, Kevin, Gupta, P., Hamon, Mathieu, Jebri, Fatma, Kumar, Raj, Morrow, Rosemary, Pascual, Ananda, Pujol, Marie-Isabelle, Rémy, Elisabeth, Rémy, Frédérique, Smith, Walter, Tournadre, Jean, Vergara, Oscar

“…The India-France SARAL/AltiKa mission is the first Ka-band altimetric mission dedicated primarily to oceanography. The mission objectives were firstly the…”
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Fully Focused SAR Altimetry: Theory and Applications by Egido, Alejandro, Smith, Walter H. F.

“…In this paper, we introduce the concept, develop the theory, and demonstrate the advantages of fully focused coherent processing of pulse echoes from a…”
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Slope correction for ocean radar altimetry by Sandwell, David T., Smith, Walter H. F.

“…We develop a slope correction model to improve the accuracy of mean sea surface topography models as well as marine gravity models. The correction is greatest…”
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Direct conversion of latitude and height from one ellipsoid to another by Smith, Walter H. F.

“…I suggest a method for converting geodetic height and latitude from one oblate ellipsoid of revolution to another having the same center and symmetry axis…”
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Organic electronics Self-assembly is ready to roll by Smith, Walter F

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