Abstract's details

Mean Sea Surfaces errors characterization

Marie Isabelle Pujol (CLS, France)

CoAuthors

Gérald Dibarboure (CLS, France); Matthias Raynal (CLS, France); Claire Dufau (CLS, France); Yannice Faugère (CLS, France); Amandine Guillot (CNES, France); Nicolas Picot (CNES, France)

Event: 2016 Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting

Session: Quantifying Errors and Uncertainties in Altimetry data

Presentation type: Type Oral

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Abstract:

For non repeat missions, the Mean Sea Surface significantly contributes to the altimetric error budget. With HY2A and Altika now on drifting orbits, and the successful launch of Sentinel3-A on a new ground track, the knowledge of this error become crucial for ocean applications (eg CMEMS Sea Level products).
Several MSS have been released this last 6 years, and the latest versions use geodetic missions such as CryoSat-2 and Jason-1 GM which strongly contribute to improve their resolution and accuracy. The goal of this paper is to characterize the error of these MSS fields.This study, mainly based on spectral approach allows us to quantify the errors at various wavelengths. The use of new missions with low instrumental noise measurement levels (Ka, SAR) opens new perspectives to understand the MSS errors.
 

Oral presentation show times:

Room Start Date End Date
Auditorium Thu, Nov 03 2016,10:15 Thu, Nov 03 2016,10:30
Marie Isabelle Pujol
CLS
France
mpujol@cls.fr