Saral validation report, cycle 128
Cycle date | 2019-03-11 - 2019-04-15 |
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Cycle quality | During this cycle mispointing has reached levels that has not been observed since the pre-SHM period (September 2014). These levels of mispointing are due to attitude deviation, and explains the higher percentage of missing measurements (see section ). Data quality is severely impacted by these events, as a large number of measurements is rejected through the validation process due to mispointing (see section ). |
Missing data | Cycle 128 has 1 missing pass and some passes have a large number of missing measurements due to attitude deviation. |
5.32 cm | |
8.96 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 128
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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 128 (pdf)