Saral validation report, cycle 100
Cycle date | 2016-07-04 - 2016-08-08 |
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Cycle quality | Data quality for this cycle is nominal. |
Missing data | This cycle has no missing pass, but due to the drifting orbit, routine calibration are no longer performed over land areas (see attached plot), resulting in a slightly higher percentage of missing ocean measurements (0.22 vs 0.12 %). |
5.30 cm | |
8.88 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 (cycles <= 33) or 20-year mean (cycles >=34)
Missing measurements |
Edited measurements |
Percentage of valid measurements |
Maps for cycle 100
View the maps for cycle 100 by clicking on the thumbnail, or see previous maps and animate them (click on the legend)
SLA |
Wind |
Waves |
Long-term monitoring
Long-term crossover standard deviation |
Cyclic monitoring of differences of (Saral - Jason-2) mean SLA |
For a more complete assessment of data quality, see the Validation report for cycle 100 (pdf)