Jason-1 validation report, cycle 173
Cycle date | 2006-09-15 - 2006-09-25 |
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Cycle quality | Data quality for this cycle is nominal. |
Missing data | This cycle has no missing pass. But due to an altimeter upset there are missing data in passes 64 and 65. Missing data are from September 19th 04:16:34 to 05:29:20. Restart of the altimeter occured on pass 68, corresponding missing data are from September 19th 07:48:15 to 07:57:15. Therefore passes 64, 65 and 68 are partially missing with respectively 97.7%, 64.6% and 6.9% of missing measurements over ocean. There is also a small data gap for September 24th pass 196 between 08:23:43 and 08:24:10. |
5.68 cm | |
9.26 cm |
(*)When using a selection to remove shallow waters (1000 m), areas of high ocean variability and high latitudes (> |50| deg)
(**) relative to a 7-year mean
Missing measurements |
Edited measurements |
Valid measurements |
Maps for cycle 173
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SLA |
Wind |
Waves |
Long-term monitoring
Long-term crossover standard deviation |
Mean sea level |
For a more complete assessment of data quality, see the Validation report for cycle 173 (pdf)