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16.08.2016 08:16 Age: 8 yrs

[Saral] temporary deactivated in the Ssalto/Duacs system (ADT and MADT production impacted)

Category: Operational news

Due to an issue on the processing of the Saral/AltiKa drifting orbit, the mission is temporary deactivated in the Ssalto/Duacs system.

Due to an issue on the processing of the Saral/AltiKa drifting orbit on 2016-08-09, the mission is temporary deactivated in the Ssalto/Duacs system. Some Aviso+ products are impacted:
  • among Ssalto/Duacs Near-Real Time ADT Level-3 products (h), the Saral/Altika files are not  produced,
  • among Ssalto/Duacs Near-Real Time MADT Level-4 products (h+uv) the Saral/Altika data are not  included in the merged maps. Only a 2-satellite configuration is available in the MADT maps with the ingestion of the Jason-2 and Cryosat-2 data flows.
Below the list of impacted products over the global area (this is the same for regional products) :
  • global/near-real-time/along-track/filtered/adt/al/nrt_global_al_adt_vfec_20160809_20160809.nc.gz : the files under the al/ folder and after 2016/08/09 are missing,
  • global/near-real-time/grids/madt/all-sat-merged/h/nrt_global_allsat_madt_h_2016xxxx_2016xxxx.nc.gz :no Saral/AltiKa, only Jason-2 and Cryosat-2 in the merged map.
Aviso+ will publish regular information about this issue. Please, keep in touch with the Aviso+ Operational news. See our Aviso+ latest information about the <link http: www.aviso.altimetry.fr en news front-page-news _blank external-link-new-window>Saral/AltiKa drifting orbit. NB: The SLA/MSLA products are also impacted. Since they are now delivered through the Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS), please refer to the <link http: marine.copernicus.eu newsflash cmems-4473-sea-level-l3-l4-nrt-production-issue _blank external-link-new-window>CMEMS website for any information about the SLA/MSLA products.