Category: News of the Jason-2 mission

Jason-2 completed its cycle #3, that saw the first tests of the coupling of the satellite tracking with a Digital Elevation model.

Jason-2 cycle 3 (2008-07-31 21:17:09 to 2008-08-10 19:15:39) maps show the same trends than Jason-1 over oceans. Over lands Jason-2 give much more data than Jason-1, due to the improvements in the tracking systems. The coupling of the altimeter and Doris with a Digital Elevation Model, in particular was tested during cycle 3. First results show the data quality over ocean is at least as good as before. Analysis over the other surfaces are ongoing.

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Sea level anomaly map from Jason-2 (see also <link fileadmin images news mod_actus sla_j1_242.gif download>Jason-1 simultaneous map).
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Significant wave height measured by Jason-2 altimeter (see also <link fileadmin images news mod_actus swh_j1_242.gif download>Jason-1 simultaneous map).
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Available measurements over lands for Jason-2 with respect to Jason-1: much more data are retrieved with Jason-2.
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