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Data description paper
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Data description paper |
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Arctic sea surface height maps from multi-altimeter combination
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Jean-Christophe Poisson
VORTEX-IO, Toulouse, France
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Yannice Faugère
CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville Saint-Agne, France
Amandine Guillot
CNES, Toulouse, France
Gérald Dibarboure
CNES, Toulouse, France
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We investigate how mapping sea level in the Arctic Ocean can benefit from combining data from three satellite radar altimeters: CryoSat-2, Sentinel-3A and SARAL/AltiKa. A dedicated processing for SARAL/AltiKa provides a baseline for the cross-referencing of CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3A before mapping. We show that by combining measurements coming from three missions, we are able to increase the resolution of gridded sea level fields in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
We investigate how mapping sea level in the Arctic Ocean can benefit from combining data from...
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