Mean Sea Surface MSS_CNES_CLS2022

Types of dataset: auxiliary product

DOI: 10.24400/527896/a01-2022.017 - more metadata

Contents: mean sea profile above a reference ellipsoid (T/P or WSG84). This surface is available on a regular grid (1/60°x1/60°, 1 minute). Another grid provides the estimation of error fields which represent the MSS accuracy estimated through the inverse technique.

Use: geodesy, geophysics, oceanography (operational oceanography, modeling, ocean variability studies)

Description : product for 20-year reference period (1993-2012), based 29 years of altimetry data (mean profiles, geodetic mission and SLA) Topex/poseidon, ERS-2, GFO, Jason-1,Jason-2, Jason-3, Envisat, SARAL/AltiKa, Cryosat-2, Sentinel-3A&B. The use of several missions requires to readjust all missions between them. Thus, a reference mission is chosen and other missions are adjusted with this latest (description of MSS CNES_CLS2022).

Geographic coverage: Global (79.4°S to 88°N)

Format : netCDF-4 format

Distribution media: FTP/SFTP, Gridded Data Extraction Tool, TDS; please refer to MY AVISO+

Condition of access: products delivered as stated in the licence agreement. To get an acces to the last version of MSS product, please fill in, select the given product "MSS_CNES_CLS (Mean Sea Surface)" and valid the registration form.

Copyright : 1993-ongoing CNES-CLS

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Releases of MSS

MSS_CNES_CLS2015

This mean sea surface follows on MSS_CNES_CLS_2011. The key points of this CNES_CLS 2015 MSS:

a drastic improvement of the shortest wavelengths,
a better correction of the oceanic variability,
a reduced degradation of SLA near the coast.
globaly, strong reduction of errors when computing SLA
more homogeneity of accuracy compared to the former versions

Name	Distribution media	Frequency	Data period	File weight
MSS CNES-CLS 2015	please refer to MY AVISO+	N/A	based on 1993 - 2012	1.6 GB

Mean Sea Surface MSS_CNES_CLS15. Credits CNES/CLS.

Hybrid MSS combining SIO/CNES_CLS2015/DT15 MSS models

This MSS results from the combination of 3 different reference MSSs over the ocean:

The SIO MSS (Sandwell et al, 2017) is used in the open ocean.
The CNES_CLS15 (Pujol et al, 2016) MSS used on coastal areas (<30km from the coast) and for the Antarctic region.
The DTU15 MSS (Andersen et al, 2016) used in Arctic regions (latitude> 80 N).

DOI: 10.24400/527896/a01-2021.004

References:

Andersen O., L. Stenseng, G. Piccioni, P. Knudsen, 2016. The DTU15 MSS (Mean Sea Surface) and DTU15LAT (Lowest Astronomical Tide) reference surface. ESA Living Planet Symposium 2016 - Prague, Czech Republic. http://lps16.esa.int/page_session189.php#1579p.
Pujol M.-I., Schaeffer P., Faugere Y., Raynal M., Dibarboure G., & Picot N. (2018). Gauging the improvement of recent mean sea surface models: A new approach for identifying and quantifying their errors. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123. >https://doi.org/10.1029/2017JC013503.
Sandwell D., Schaeffer P., Dibarboure G., Picot N., (2017). High Resolution Mean Sea Surface for SWOT. https://spark.adobe.com/page/MkjujdFYVbHsZ/."

Name	Distribution media	Frequency	Data period	File weight
Hybrid MSS	please refer to MY AVISO+	N/A	based on 1993 - 2012	1.0 GB

July 2011: New MSS_CNES_CLS2011

This mean sea surface follows on MSS_CNES_CLS_2010. The shorter wavelengths of this new MSS were significantly improved while maintaining the capability of the optimal analysis for removing the residual effect of the ocean variability.

It has been produced in the frame of the SLOOP project, funded by CNES/SALP, aiming at improving the quality of altimetric products in open ocean.

MSS_CNES_CLS10

This model is affected by artifact (that affect the shortest wavelengths lower than 30 km) concerning seamounts that appear too smoothed. This was due to the behavior of the objective analysis, which tended to overestimate the residual ocean variability at the expense of the topography (static geophysical structure).

Further information: Schaeffer P. et al.: The new CNES CLS 2010 Mean Sea Surface, oral presentation at OSTST 2010 meeting (pdf, 10 MB).

Comparaison of MSS models: DTU10 (right), MSS_CNES_CLS10 (center) where the two circled seamounts are not tall enough and to the left, the next corrected MSS_CNES_CLS11 (upcoming in 2011).

2001: CLS01

This mean sea surface succeed to CLS-SHOM98.2 project.
Concerning CLS01 this is 7 years of Topex/Poseidon data, 5 years of ERS-1/2 data, 2 years of Geosat data added to ERS-1 geodetic data which were processed and homogenized in order to produce a (1/30°x1/30°) gridded map.