Wave experimental products
SALP/CAWATAC ("Coordination des Activités Amont du Wave TAC") Experimental products: along-track significant wave height 5Hz
Types of dataset: SALP multimission "Experimental" altimeter products. Preparation to the future Copernicus Marine Service L3 high resolution standards and to the SWOT Era.
DOI: 10.24400/527896/a01-2022.013 - more metadata
Contents: multimission significant wave heights at 5Hz
Use: coastal and regional studies, sea state characterization and short scales correlation with ocean variability (mesoscale circulation,...)
Condition of access: Users should keep in mind that these products are experimental products. Notably, they are not produced on an operational basis.
Citation: When using the SALP/CAWATAC experimental products, please cite: "Those products were processed by SALP/CAWATAC and distributed by AVISO+ (https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr) with support from CNES (https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2022.013)”
Description: added value product resulting from specific processes, available in delayed time over one year: 2021.
Geographic coverage: global
Format: NetCDF
Tools:
- User handbook: SALP/CAWATAC experimental products handbook: along-track SWH at 5Hz : soon available
References:
- Valorisation of the product:
- Ollivier et al., 2022, OSTST, 5Hz (1km) nadir wave products for coastal approach… and elsewhere!
- Ollivier et al., 2022, OSTST, Complementarity of SWIM and Sentinel-1 for ocean wave description
- Ollivier et al., 2022, Poster Living Planet Symposium: Towards high resolution altimetry wave products: what is hidden below 50km? A multimission approach
- Newsletter Aviso #19
- Methodology:
- Cedric Tourain, Fanny Piras, Annabelle Ollivier, Danièle Hauser, Jean-Christophe Poisson, et al.. Benefits of the Adaptive algorithm for retracking altimeter nadir echoes: results from simulations and CFOSAT/SWIM observations. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2021, 59 (12), pp.9927-9940. https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3064236
- Tran et al. Assessing the effects of sea-state related errors on the precision of high-rate Jason-3 altimeter sea level data, Advances in Space Research 68 (2021) 963-977 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2019.11.034
- Dodet et al, The Sea State CCI dataset v1: towards a Sea State Climate Data Record based on satellite observations, Earth System Science Data, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1929-2020
- Quilfen, Y., & Chapron, B. (2019). Ocean surface wave-current signatures from satellite altimeter measurements. Geophysical Research Letters, 46, 253– 261. https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GL081029
Copyright : 2021-2022 CLS/Cnes
Delayed-time Wave along-track 5Hz products
| Satellite | Area | Type | Authenticated access service | Data period | File weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CFOSAT | global | CMEMS “L3 like” | please refer to MY AVISO+ and select the product | 01/01/2021 - 31/12/2021 | Approximately 4 Go per mission |
| Jason-3 | 06/01/2021 - 08/01/2022 | ||||
| AltiKa | 04/01/2021 - 24/01/2022 | ||||
| HY-2B | 04/01/2021 - 03/01/2022 |
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