Walter H. F. Smith
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Walter H. F. Smith's Degrees
- Bachelors Physics University of California, Berkeley
Why Is Walter H. F. Smith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter H. F. Smith is a geophysicist, currently working in NOAA's Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. He was formerly Chair of the scientific and technical sub-committee of GEBCO from 2003 to 2013. Smith earned a BSc at the University of Southern California, and an MA, MPhil and PhD degrees at Columbia University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography until joining NOAA in 1992. Smith is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, nominated for his contributions to marine geodesy.
Walter H. F. Smith's Published Works
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Published Works
- New, improved version of generic mapping tools released (1998) (6644)
- Global Sea Floor Topography from Satellite Altimetry and Ship Depth Soundings (1997) (4291)
- Free software helps map and display data (1991) (4100)
- Generic Mapping Tools: Improved Version Released (2013) (2742)
- New version of the generic mapping tools (1995) (2480)
- Marine gravity anomaly from Geosat and ERS 1 satellite altimetry (1997) (1687)
- Gridding with continuous curvature splines in tension (1990) (1387)
- A global, self‐consistent, hierarchical, high‐resolution shoreline database (1996) (1119)
- New global marine gravity model from CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 reveals buried tectonic structure (2014) (1020)
- Bathymetric prediction from dense satellite altimetry and sparse shipboard bathymetry (1994) (444)
- An empirical thermal history of the Earth's upper mantle (1994) (255)
- Toward 1-mGal accuracy in global marine gravity from CryoSat-2, Envisat, and Jason-1 (2013) (194)
- The longevity of the South Pacific isotopic and thermal anomaly (1991) (185)
- On the accuracy of digital bathymetric data (1993) (170)
- Spawning strategies of fishes in relation to circulation, phytoplankton production, and pulses in zooplankton off the north-eastern United States (1984) (156)
- Observational hints for a plume‐fed, suboceanic asthenosphere and its role in mantle convection (1995) (153)
- Satellite altimetry and the intensification of Hurricane Katrina (2005) (127)
- Retracking ERS-1 altimeter waveforms for optimal gravity field recovery (2005) (125)
- An Evaluation of Publicly Available Global Bathymetry Grids (2006) (121)
- The Magellan seamounts: Early Cretaceous record of the South Pacific isotopic and thermal anomaly (1989) (116)
- Flat to steep transition in subduction style (1994) (105)
- A global positioning system–based climatology for the total electron content in the ionosphere (2010) (94)
- Retracking CryoSat-2, Envisat and Jason-1 radar altimetry waveforms for improved gravity field recovery (2014) (93)
- Global gravity, bathymetry, and the distribution of submarine volcanism through space and time (2005) (73)
- Mapping amphibian contact zones and phylogeographical break hotspots across the United States (2010) (73)
- Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress (2021) (69)
- Satellite Gravity and the Geosphere: Contributions to the Study of the Solid Earth and Its Fluid Earth (1998) (61)
- Deformation of the oceanic crust between the North American and South American Plates (1993) (61)
- Seafloor Tectonic Fabric from Satellite Altimetry (1998) (59)
- Gravity field recovery from geodetic altimeter missions (2019) (57)
- Bathymetry from space: Rationale and requirements for a new, high-resolution altimetric mission (2006) (54)
- Fully Focused SAR Altimetry: Theory and Applications (2017) (52)
- Satellite Altimeters Measure Tsunami (2005) (52)
- Comparison of along‐track resolution of stacked Geosat, ERS 1, and TOPEX satellite altimeters (1995) (50)
- Calibration of the CryoSat-2 Interferometer and Measurement of Across-Track Ocean Slope (2011) (47)
- The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission: Enhanced continuity of satellite sea level measurements from space (2021) (39)
- Waveform Aliasing in Satellite Radar Altimetry (2015) (37)
- Seafloor in the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 Search Area (2014) (36)
- The Benefits of the Ka-Band as Evidenced from the SARAL/AltiKa Altimetric Mission: Scientific Applications (2018) (36)
- Three-dimensional estimation of elastic thickness under the Louisville Ridge (2000) (32)
- An uncertainty model for deep ocean single beam and multibeam echo sounder data (2008) (31)
- How supercontinents and superoceans affect seafloor roughness (2008) (28)
- Mapping the Southwest Indian Ridge with Geosat (1993) (25)
- Resolution of Seamount Geoid Anomalies Achieved by the SARAL/AltiKa and Envisat RA2 Satellite Radar Altimeters (2015) (24)
- Evolution of errors in the altimetric bathymetry model used by Google Earth and GEBCO (2010) (23)
- Chapter 12 Bathymetric Estimation (2001) (22)
- Influences of temperature and oxygen upon habitat selection by bullfrog tadpoles and three species of freshwater fishes in two Alabama strip mine ponds (1999) (19)
- Slope correction for ocean radar altimetry (2014) (18)
- Gravity and the hydrosphere: new frontier (1999) (18)
- Bathymetry from Space is Now Possible (2003) (18)
- Removing Intra-1-Hz Covariant Error to Improve Altimetric Profiles of $\sigma^{0}$ and Sea Surface Height (2019) (16)
- Bathymetry from Space : White paper in support of a high-resolution , ocean altimeter mission (2001) (15)
- The SARAL/AltiKa mission: A step forward to the future of altimetry (2020) (15)
- The performance of CryoSat-2 fully-focussed SAR for inland water-level estimation (2020) (12)
- Impact of synthetic abyssal hill roughness on resolved motions in numerical global ocean tide models (2017) (11)
- Satellite gravity: Insights into the Solid Earth and its fluid envelope (1998) (11)
- Improved Bathymetric Prediction Using Geological Information: SYNBATH (2022) (10)
- Global Bathymetric Prediction For Ocean Modeling and Marine Geophysics (2001) (9)
- Corrections to "Removing Intra-1-Hz Covariant Error to Improve Altimetric Profiles of σ0 and Sea Surface Height" (2019) (9)
- Spectral windows for satellite radar altimeters (2018) (9)
- A Semianalytical Model of the Synthetic Aperture, Interferometric Radar Altimeter Mean Echo, and Echo Cross-Product and Its Statistical Fluctuations (2018) (8)
- The Marine Geoid and Satellite Altimetry (2010) (8)
- Reply to Comment on “Satellite Altimetry and the Intensification of Hurricane Katrina” by D. Sun et al. (2006) (7)
- The Unique Role of the Jason Geodetic Missions for high Resolution Gravity Field and Mean Sea Surface Modelling (2021) (7)
- First Coastal Altimetry Workshop: Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coastal Altimeter Workshop; 5–7 February 2008, Silver Spring, Maryland (2008) (7)
- Airline Flight Paths over the Unmapped Ocean (2017) (6)
- 2,500m Isobath from Satellite Bathymetry: Accuracy Assessment in Light of IHO S-44 Standards (2005) (6)
- Pulse-to-Pulse Correlation Effects in High PRF Low-Resolution Mode Altimeters (2019) (6)
- Rock crevice morphology and forest contexts drive microhabitat preferences in the Green Salamander (Aneides aeneus) (2017) (6)
- 20 Years of Improvements to GEOSAT Altimetry (2006) (5)
- Trade‐offs in moving citizen‐based anuran call surveys online during the SARS‐CoV‐2 pandemic: Lessons from rural Appalachia, USA (2020) (5)
- Herpetofauna as Indicator Species in the Health of Riparian Buffer Zones (2013) (5)
- Antarctic ice sheet topography, cavity geometry, and global bathymetry (RTopo 1.0.5-beta) (2010) (5)
- Marine Gravity from Satellite Altimetry over Ocean and Sea Ice (1996) (4)
- Conquering the coastal zone: a new frontier for satellite altimetry (2012) (4)
- Abyss-Lite: A High-Resolution Gravimetric and Bathymetric Mission (2004) (4)
- Marine gravity derived from GEOSAT (1993) (3)
- Improved Global Marine Gravity Field From Reprocessing of Geosat and ERS-1 Radar Altimeter Waveforms (2004) (3)
- Orbit Accuracy Requirement for ABYSS: The Space Station Radar Altimeter to Map Global Bathymetry (2009) (3)
- The ABYSS Mission: Satellite Altimetry Optimized for Seafloor Geophysics (2001) (2)
- The future employment of geophysicists (1995) (2)
- Assessing errors in altimetric and other bathymetry grids (2011) (2)
- Orbit determination requirements for ABYSS: a proposed space station science payload (2009) (2)
- Direct conversion of latitude and height from one ellipsoid to another (2022) (2)
- ECOLOGICAL DETERMINANTS OF HERPETOFAUNAL ASSEMBLAGE STRUCTURE IN THE LONGLEAF PINE ECOSYSTEM (2011) (2)
- Potential For Improving Global Marine Gravity From CryoSat And Jason-1 (2011) (1)
- Mapping Seafloor Tectonics from Satellite Altimetry: Requirements for a Future Mission (2006) (1)
- GEBCO Cookbook, Errors and Uncertainty in the Gridded Bathymetry (2010) (1)
- The Correspondence of Altimetric Gravity Texture to Abyssal Hill Morphology (2003) (1)
- A baseline inventory of waterfowl from surface mine wetlands in the Virginia coalfields (2020) (1)
- Validation of a global dataset based on subwaveform retracking: improving the precision of pulse-limited satellite altimetry (2017) (1)
- Public geospatial datasets as an approach to maximizing effi ciency in the collection of site covariates in wildlife–vehicle collision studies (2017) (1)
- New Views of Earth using ERS Satellite Altimetry (2013) (1)
- Species Composition and Temporal Patterns of Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions in Southwest Virginia, USA (2018) (1)
- Genetic divergence correlates with the contemporary landscape in populations of Slimy Salamander (Plethodon glutinosus) species complex across the lower Piedmont and Coastal Plain of the southeastern United States (2018) (1)
- Intra-1 Hz Correlations (2016) (1)
- ABYSS-Lite: A Radar Altimeter for Bathymetry, Geodesy and Mesoscale Oceanography, A Mission Concept Submitted to the NRC Decadal Survey (2005) (1)
- The second-order effect of Earth’s rotation on Cryosat-2 fully focused SAR processing (2020) (1)
- CRATER CANDIDATE FOR SPHERULE BEARING LAYERS IN THE GULF OF CARPENTARIA AND ARAFURA SEA (2020) (0)
- New Geographic Distribution Records for Herpetofauna in Southwest Virginia, USA (2014) (0)
- Marine Gravity Field Mapping from Altimetry – Advancement with 2nd Generation Altimeters (2018) (0)
- Orbit determination requirements for abyss: The proposed science payload on space station (2008) (0)
- The Unique Role of Jason-2 Geodetic Mission for High Resolution Gravity Field Modelling (2020) (0)
- Better than averaging: empirical correction for intra-1Hz correlations (2018) (0)
- Correlation Properties of Delay/Doppler Radar Altimeter Waveforms over the Ice-Covered Ocean (2017) (0)
- Chapter 11 - BATHYMETRIC ESTIMATION (1999) (0)
- New Techniques for Radar Altimetry of Sea Ice and the Polar Oceans (2017) (0)
- THE IMPACT OF PRESCRIBED FIRE AND SEASON OF BURN ON AMPHIBIAN AND REPTILE BIODIVERSITY PATTERNS IN NORTHERN LONGLEAF ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION (2008) (0)
- Scientists seek to improve graduate education in the geosciences (1996) (0)
- Using Multiple Focal Points in Fully-Focussed SAR Processing to Reduce Waveform Land Contamination (2019) (0)
- Herpetofaunal Inventory of the Guest River Gorge, Jefferson National Forest, Clinch Ranger District, Virginia (2014) (0)
- Charting the Remote Southern Oceans With Geosat Altimetry (1993) (0)
- FASTER ARCHITECTURAL SIMULATION (1987) (0)
- Global Marine Gravity and Bathymetry at 1-Minute Resolution (2008) (0)
- Abstract: Scientific Applications of Fully-Focused SAR Altimetry (2016) (0)
- A Proposal to Completely Chart the World's Oceans (2009) (0)
- The Generic Mapping Tools 6: Classic versus Modern Mode (2017) (0)
- Towards 1 MilliGal Global Marine Gravity Accuracy from CryoSat-2, Jason-1, and Envisat (2013) (0)
- Precise orbit determination for GEOSAT and GEOSAT Follow-On in the GRACE era (2009) (0)
- Retracking Jason-1 Altimeter Waveforms for Marine Gravity Recovery (2013) (0)
- Antarctica: Gravity Anomaly and Infrared Satellite Image 1992. (2018) (0)
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