Operational News

05.03.2019February 2019: New version of L2P Non Time Critical Sentinel-3A products

The new version 02_01 is disseminated by AVISO+ via ftp or AVISO+ CNES Data Center (see the product sheet) with unchanged access (available in version_02_01 folder).

Note that the last cycle produced in version 02_00 has already been delivered (cycle 39). The next cycle 40 will be produced only in version 02_01. The version 01_00 will be removed from the ftp site. 

With this new version:

the input data are the “spring 2018 reprocessed” version of input NTC L2 products fully detailed in the EUMETSAT S3A STM reprocessing technical note the retracking version is homogeneous for all the cycles the standards are the same as in 02_00 version the temporal coverage of L2P versions and L2 baseline used are:

  S3A L2P NTC version 02_01 S3A L2P NTC version 02_00 S3A L2P NTC version 01_00 temporal coverage 15/06/2016 → present 15/06/2016 → 02/01/2018 15/06/2016 → 02/01/2018 based on L2 baseline collection 003 002 (till 17/11/2017) and 003 afterwards 002

 You will find the details in the handbook [more]

28.02.2019[SSALTO/Duacs] Impact of Jason-3 unavailability in the NRT system

The DUACS system is facing an important reduction of upstream altimeter measurements. [more]

27.02.2019[Wind/Wave products] temporary interruption of merged production since February 27th 2019

Due to the interruption of upstream measurements: Jason-3, Jason-2 and Saral/Altika, the merged wind and wave products cannot be processed since today February 27th 2019. 

We are sorry for the inconvenience[more]

25.02.2019[Jason-3] Jason-3 in Safe Hold Mode since Feb 24th 09:57:16TU

On Sunday, February 24th, at 09:57:16TU, the Jason-3 spacecraft entered safe hold mode, immediately interrupting its measurements due to an important mispointing.[more]

19.02.2019[Saral/AltiKa] SARAL/AltiKa satellite encountered since 3rd of February 2019 some issues affecting the nadir pointing accuracy

SARAL/AltiKa satellite encountered since 3rd of February 2019 some issues affecting the nadir pointing accuracy[more]

18.02.2019[Jason-2] Jason-2 is in safe mode since Saturday, February 16th 2019 @14:56:48 UTC

The Jason-2 spacecraft entered safe mode Saturday, February 16th 2019 @14:56:48 UTC immediately interrupting its measurements. [more]

14.02.2019[Jason-2/Jason-3] MOE calculation takes into account DORIS and GPSP measurements

Starting Wednesday February 13th 2019, DORIS and GPSP measurements are taken into account for the calculation of Jason-2 and Jason-3 MOE.[more]

29.01.2019[Sentinel-3B L2P] redelivery of L2P S3B Near Real Time and Short Time Critical

Due to inapproriate global attributes in the files, the whole files of NRT and STC S3B L2P time series have been reprocessed and redistributed today (29/01 after 14h UTC) on the Aviso+ ftp server.[more]

11.01.2019[Jason-2] has restarted successfully on Monday 7th, January

All core payload instruments have been restarted around 8:30UTC on Monday 7th January[more]

27.12.2018[Jason-2] is in safe hold mode since December 26th at 01:33:54UTC

The Jason-2 spacecraft entered safe mode on Wednesday, December 26th 2018 at @01:33:54UTC, immediately interrupting its measurements. [more]