also like to thank Camisa Carlson at Earth & Space Research for her thorough English language editing. The authors thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor for their insightful and constructive comments and suggestions. Q-COAPS was obtained online (from http://coaps.fsu.edu/scatterometry/gridded/ ). The OSCAR ocean current data from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, was obtained online (from ftp
also like to thank Camisa Carlson at Earth & Space Research for her thorough English language editing. The authors thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor for their insightful and constructive comments and suggestions. Q-COAPS was obtained online (from http://coaps.fsu.edu/scatterometry/gridded/ ). The OSCAR ocean current data from the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, was obtained online (from ftp
