Description
The altimetry data are from RADS (http://rads.tudelft.nl/rads/rads.shtml), the Radar Altimetry Database System, first developed at Delft University of Technology, now also at the NOAA and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT). The RADS data for each mission is updated with state of the art corrections for tides, atmospheric path delay, etc. Because they are all computed consistently between the various missions, this avoids the possibility of introducing biases and drifts because of the different implementation of the various corrections by different agencies. The goals of RADS are to provide a homogenous dataset of sea level anomalies, wave heights, and wind speeds, along with database selection and analysis tools.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Background Information | HTML | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | HTML | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | HTML | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | HTML | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | HTML | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| ERDDAP-griddap | Unknown | ERDDAP's griddap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for gridded data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. | Open resource |
| OPeNDAP | Unknown | An OPeNDAP service for gridded data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. | Open resource |
| Make-A-Graph Form | Unknown | ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. | Open resource |
| Data Subset Form | HTML | ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. | Open resource |
| OGC-WMS | WMS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS) | Open resource |
Tags
- above
- altimetry
- anomalies
- anomaly
- applications
- center
- coastwatch
- cryosat-2
- daily
- data
- day
- earth science
- environmental
- geodetics/gravity
- geoid properties
- information
- jason-2
- jason-3
- latitude
- level
- longitude
- merged
- national
- nesdis
- noaa
- ocean
- oceans
- oceanwatch
- radar altimetry database system
- rads-nrt-sla-daily-l3
- research
- saral
- satellite
- sea
- sea level
- sea level anomalies
- sea surface height
- sea_surface_height_above_sea_level
- sea surface topography
- sentinel-3a
- service
- sla
- solid earth
- ssh
- surface
- surface_geostrophic_eastward_sea_water_velocity
- surface_geostrophic_northward_sea_water_velocity
- surface sea surface height
- time
- topography