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North SEAL: a new dataset of sea level changes in the North Sea from satellite altimetry
Denise Dettmering
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Felix L. Müller
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Julius Oelsmann
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Marcello Passaro
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Christian Schwatke
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
Marco Restano
SERCO, c/o ESRIN, Largo Galileo Galilei, Frascati, Italy
Jérôme Benveniste
European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, Frascati, Italy
Florian Seitz
Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, 80333 Munich, Germany
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In this study, a new gridded altimetry-based regional sea level dataset for the North Sea is presented, named North SEAL. It is based on long-term multi-mission cross-calibrated altimetry data consistently preprocessed with coastal dedicated algorithms. On a 6–8 km wide triangular mesh, North SEAL provides time series of monthly sea level anomalies as well as sea level trends and amplitudes of the mean annual sea level cycle for the period 1995–2019 for various applications.
In this study, a new gridded altimetry-based regional sea level dataset for the North Sea is...
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