Jason-3 validation report, cycle 6
Cycle date | 2016-04-07 - 2016-04-16 |
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Cycle quality | Data quality for this cycle is nominal. |
Missing data | This cycle has no missing pass, but due to expertise calibrations (CAL2) on 2016-04-08 from 04:44:30 to 05:00:46 and from 05:11:00 to 05:28:21, pass 31 has 52.53% of missing measurements. In addition about 3 minutes of data are missing by two times due to GPS on/off on pass 65 (2016-04-09 12:42) and pass 113 (2016-04-11 10:01). |
5.28 cm | |
10.23 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 |
Percentage of valid measurements |
Maps for cycle 6
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SLA |
Wind |
Waves |
Long-term monitoring
Long-term crossover standard deviation |
Cyclic monitoring of differences of (Jason-2 - Jason-3) mean SLA |
For a more complete assessment of data quality, see the Validation report for cycle 6 (pdf)