Hurricane Sandy storm surges observed by HY-2A satellitealtimetry and tide gauges

• 作 者: Nan Chen
• 机 构: TheSecondInstituteofOceanography,StateOceanicAdministration,Hangzhou
• 出 处: The Second Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences
• 发表日期: 2015年1期

Hurricane Sandy made landfall to the northeast of Atlantic City,New Jersey at 23∶30 UTC on 29thOctober 2012 and caused large storm surges and devastating flooding along the New Jersey and New Yorkcoasts.Here we combine sea surface height measurements from the HaiYang-2A (HY-2A) satellite altimeterwith coastal tide-gauge data to study the features of the Hurricane Sandy storm surges.