Storm Surge Measurement with an Airborne Scanning Radar Altimeter

E. J. Walsh1*, C. W. Wright1, W. B. Krabill1, W. A. Shaffer2, S. R. Baig3, M. Peng4, L. J. Pietrafesa4, A. W. Garcia5, F. D. Marks, Jr.6, P. G. Black6**, J. Sonntag7, B. D. Beckley8

1NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, VA 2NOAA/National Weather Service, Silver Spring, MD

3NOAA/Tropical Prediction Center, National Hurricane Center, Miami, FL4College of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

5Coastal and Hydraulic Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer R&D Center, Vicksburg, MS 6NOAA/AOML/Hurricane Research Division, Miami, FL

7EG&G Technical Services Inc., Wallops Island, VA8SGT Incorporated, NASA/GSFC Ocean Sciences Branch, Greenbelt, MD

•presently on assignment for NASA at NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO

** present affiliation: Science Applications International Corporation, Monterey, CA

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