Coastal altimetry products in the strait of Gibraltar

Autor: Enri, J. Gomez, Cipollini, P., Passaro, M., Vignudelli, S., Tejedor, B., Coca, J.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2016)
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2016.2565472
Popis: This paper analyzes the availability and accuracy of coastal altimetry sea level products in the Strait of Gibraltar. All possible repeats of two sections of the Envisat and AltiKa ground-tracks were used in the eastern and western portions of the strait. For Envisat, along-track sea level anomalies (SLAs) at 18-Hz posting rate were computed using ranges from two sources, namely, the official SGDRs and the outputs of a coastal waveform retracker, the ALES retracker; in addition, SLAs at 1 Hz were obtained from CTOH, France. For AltiKa, along-track SLA at 40 Hz was also computed both from SGDR and ALES ranges. The quality of these altimeter products was validated using two tide gauges located on the southern coast of Spain. We observed an improvement of about 20% in the accuracy of the Envisat SLAs from ALES compared to the standard (SGDR) and the reprocessed CTOH data sets. AltiKa shows higher accuracy, with no significant differences between SGDR and ALES.
Databáze: arXiv