SALP/CAWATAC ("Coordination des Activités Amont du Wave TAC") Experimental products: along-track significant wave height 5Hz

Types of dataset: SALP multimission "Experimental" altimeter products. Preparation to the future Copernicus Marine Service L3 high resolution standards and to the SWOT Era.

DOI: 10.24400/527896/a01-2022.013 -  more metadata

Contents: multimission significant wave heights at 5Hz

Use: coastal and regional studies, sea state characterization and short scales correlation with ocean variability (mesoscale circulation,...)

Condition of access:  Users should keep in mind that these products are experimental products. Notably, they are not produced on an operational basis. 

Citation: When using the SALP/CAWATAC experimental products, please cite: "Those products were processed by SALP/CAWATAC and distributed by AVISO+ (https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr) with support from CNES (https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2022.013)”

Description: added value product resulting from specific processes, available in delayed time over one year: 2021. 

Geographic coverage: global

Format: NetCDF

Tools:

• User handbook: SALP/CAWATAC experimental products handbook: along-track SWH at 5Hz : soon available

References:

• Valorisation of the product:
  • Ollivier et al., 2022, OSTST, 5Hz (1km) nadir wave products for coastal approach… and elsewhere!
  • Ollivier et al., 2022, OSTST, Complementarity of SWIM and Sentinel-1 for ocean wave description
  • Ollivier et al., 2022, Poster Living Planet Symposium: Towards high resolution altimetry wave products: what is hidden below 50km? A multimission approach 
  • Newsletter Aviso #19
• Methodology:
  • Cedric Tourain, Fanny Piras, Annabelle Ollivier, Danièle Hauser, Jean-Christophe Poisson, et al.. Benefits of the Adaptive algorithm for retracking altimeter nadir echoes: results from simulations and CFOSAT/SWIM observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, 59 (12), pp.9927-9940. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3064236  
  • Tran et al. Assessing the effects of sea-state related errors on the precision of high-rate Jason-3 altimeter sea level data, Advances in Space Research 68 (2021) 963-977 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.034
  • Dodet et al, The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a Sea State Climate Data Record based on satellite observations, Earth System Science Data, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1929-2020 
  • Quilfen, Y., & Chapron, B. (2019). Ocean surface wave-current signatures from satellite altimeter measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 253– 261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081029

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