Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-281-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-281-2018
Review article
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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, Michaël Ablain, Lionel Zawadzki, Hao Zuo, Johnny A. Johannessen, Martin G. Scharffenberg, Luciana Fenoglio-Marc, M. Joana Fernandes, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Sergei Rudenko, Paolo Cipollini, Graham D. Quartly, Marcello Passaro, Anny Cazenave, and Jérôme Benveniste

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

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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.