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12 Sep 2019
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DUACS DT2018: 25 years of reprocessed sea level altimetry products
Guillaume Taburet
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Antonio Sanchez-Roman
Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, C/Miquel
Marquès, 21, 07190 Esporles, Illes Balears, Spain
Maxime Ballarotta
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Marie-Isabelle Pujol
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Jean-François Legeais
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Florent Fournier
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Yannice Faugere
Collecte Localisation Satellites, Parc Technologique du Canal, 8–10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France
Gerald Dibarboure
Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales, 18 avenue Edouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
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Short summary
This paper deals with sea level altimetery products. These geophysical data are distributed as along-track and gridded data through Copernicus programs CMEMS and C3S. We present in detail a new reprocessing of the data (DT2018) from 1993 to 2017. The main changes and their impacts since the last version (DT2014) are carefully discussed. This comparison is made using an independent dataset. DT2018 sea level products are improved at the global and regional scale, especially in coastal areas.
This paper deals with sea level altimetery products. These geophysical data are distributed as...
