Category: News of the Jason-2 mission

Placed on its working orbit on July, 4th, Jason-2 has completed on July, 14th its first full 10 days (repeat cycle). Results continues to show very good agreement with Jason-1.

Less than one month after launch, Jason-2 is giving its first complete maps, computed from a full 10 days on its operational orbit (data from 2008-07-04 12:30 (Cycle 0, pass 62) to 2008-07-14 10:29 (Cycle 1, pass 61),  since cycle 0 did not begin at pass 1, so that Jason-2 pass numbers are phased with Jason-1's). Comparisons with Jason-1, 55 seconds ahead on the same orbit, show a very good agreement for all measured parameters.

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Sea Level Anomalies from Jason-2 and their equivalent from Jason-1
(data from 2008-07-04 12:30 (Cycle 0, pass 62) to 2008-07-14 10:29 (Cycle 1, pass 61)).

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Significant wave heights (same period).

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Wind speed modulus (id.) (Credits Cnes/CLS)

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first global wet path delay map created with data from the Advanced Microwave Radiometer (AMR) onboard the Ocean Surface Topography Mission/Jason-2 satellite (left); right the same from Jason-1 (Credits Nasa/JPL).