We want to thank Laury Miller, Xanthe Cao, Robert Malone and Tom Johnson
for providing ocean model heights for comparison with our altimetry, as
well as Jim Carton and C.K. Tai for discussions on these comparisons.
John Lillibridge and John Kuhn were kind to keep our computing system
going at critical times and also to provide necessary Geophysical
Data Records and trajectory information at many junctures of this study.
We praise Brian Beckley for suffering endless questions and
yet continuing to enlighten us
on the mysteries of NASA's Pathfinder altimeter data.
We thank Wolfgang Bosch for his cooperation using independent
software for the inversion. This work has been partly performed
under grants A3703 and A3004
of the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences
of Czech Republic (GA AV), project MSM21000007 of the Czech
technical University and grant
205/98/1104 of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
(GA ¬R).