Editing Jason-1 (section)

=== Planetary Waves ===
TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason-1 made clear the importance of planetary-scale waves, such as [[Rossby wave|Rossby]] and [[Kelvin wave|Kelvin]] waves. No one had realized how widespread these waves are. Thousands of kilometers wide, these waves are driven by wind under the influence of Earth's rotation and are important mechanisms for transmitting climate signals across the large ocean basins. At high latitudes, they travel twice as fast as scientists believed previously, showing the ocean responds much more quickly to climate changes than was known before these missions.