An improved and homogeneous altimeter sea level record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Legeais, Jean-François; Ablain, Michaël; Zawadzki, Lionel; Zuo, Hao; Johannessen, Johnny A.; Scharffenberg, Martin G.; Fenoglio-Marc, Luciana; Fernandes, M. Joana; Andersen, Ole Baltazar; Rudenko, Sergei; Cipollini, Paolo; Quartly, Graham D.; Passaro, Marcello; Cazenave, Anny; Benveniste, Jérôme

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-281-2018

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 281–301, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-281-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 281–301, 2018

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-281-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Review article 12 Feb 2018

Review article | 12 Feb 2018

An improved and homogeneous altimeter sea level record from the ESA Climate Change Initiative

Jean-François Legeais et al.

Data sets

The ESA Sea Level Essential Climate Variable v2.0 The ESA Sea Level Climate Change Initiative team https://doi.org/10.5270/esa-sea_level_cci-1993_2015-v_2.0-201612

Short summary

Sea level is one of the best indicators of climate change and has been listed as one of the essential climate variables. Sea level measurements have been provided by satellite altimetry for 25 years, and the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) program of the European Space Agency has given the opportunity to provide a long-term, homogeneous and accurate sea level record. It will help scientists to better understand climate change and its variability.