Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

Saleh Abdalla; Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi; Michaël Ablain; Susheel Adusumilli; Suchandra Aich Bhowmick; Eva Alou-Font; Laiba Amarouche; Ole Baltazar Andersen; Helena Antich; Lotfi Aouf; Brian Arbic; Thomas Armitage; Sabine Arnault; Camila Artana; Giuseppe Aulicino; Nadia Ayoub; Sergei Badulin; Steven Baker; Chris Banks; Lifeng Bao; Silvia Barbetta; Bàrbara Barceló-Llull; François Barlier; Sujit Basu; Peter Bauer-Gottwein; Matthias Becker; Brian Beckley; Nicole Bellefond; Tatyana Belonenko; Mounir Benkiran; Touati Benkouider; Ralf Bennartz; Jérôme Benveniste; Nicolas Bercher; Muriel Berge-Nguyen; Joao Bettencourt; Fabien Blarel; Alejandro Blazquez; Denis Blumstein; Pascal Bonnefond; Franck Borde; Jérôme Bouffard; François Boy; Jean-Paul Boy; Cédric Brachet; Pierre Brasseur; Alexander Braun; Luca Brocca; David Brockley; Laurent Brodeau; Shannon Brown; Sean Bruinsma; Anna Bulczak; Sammie Buzzard; Madeleine Cahill; Stéphane Calmant; Michel Calzas; Stefania Camici; Mathilde Cancet; Hugues Capdeville; Claudia Cristina Carabajal; Loren Carrere; Anny Cazenave; Eric P. Chassignet; Prakash Chauhan; Selma Cherchali; Teresa Chereskin; Cecile Cheymol; Daniele Ciani; Paolo Cipollini; Francesca Cirillo; Emmanuel Cosme; Steve Coss; Yuri Cotroneo; David Cotton; Alexandre Couhert; Sophie Coutin-Faye; Jean-François Crétaux; Frederic Cyr; Francesco d’Ovidio; José Darrozes; Cedric David; Nadim Dayoub; Danielle De Staerke; Xiaoli Deng; Shailen Desai; Jean-Damien Desjonqueres; Denise Dettmering; Alessandro Di Bella; Lara Díaz-Barroso; Gerald Dibarboure; Habib Boubacar Dieng; Salvatore Dinardo; Henryk Dobslaw; Guillaume Dodet; Andrea Doglioli; Alessio Domeneghetti; David Donahue; Shenfu Dong; Craig Donlon; Joël Dorandeu; Christine Drezen; Mark Drinkwater; Yves Du Penhoat; Brian Dushaw; Alejandro Egido; Svetlana Erofeeva; Philippe Escudier; Saskia Esselborn; Pierre Exertier; Ronan Fablet; Cédric Falco; Sinead Louise Farrell; Yannice Faugere; Pierre Femenias; Luciana Fenoglio; Joana Fernandes; Juan Gabriel Fernández; Pascale Ferrage; Ramiro Ferrari; Lionel Fichen; Paolo Filippucci; Stylianos Flampouris; Sara Fleury; Marco Fornari; Rene Forsberg; Frédéric Frappart; Marie-laure Frery; Pablo Garcia; Albert Garcia-Mondejar; Julia Gaudelli; Lucile Gaultier; Augusto Getirana; Ferran Gibert; Artur Gil; Lin Gilbert; Sarah Gille; Luisella Giulicchi; Jesús Gómez-Enri; Laura Gómez-Navarro; Christine Gommenginger; Lionel Gourdeau; David Griffin; Andreas Groh; Alexandre Guerin; Raul Guerrero; Thierry Guinle; Praveen Gupta; Benjamin D. Gutknecht; Mathieu Hamon; Guoqi Han; Danièle Hauser; Veit Helm; Stefan Hendricks; Fabrice Hernandez; Anna Hogg; Martin Horwath; Martina Idžanović; Peter Janssen; Eric Jeansou; Yongjun Jia; Yuanyuan Jia; Liguang Jiang; Johnny A. Johannessen; Masafumi Kamachi; Svetlana Karimova; Kathryn Kelly; Sung Yong Kim; Robert King; Cecile M.M. Kittel; Patrice Klein; Anna Klos; Per Knudsen; Rolf Koenig; Andrey Kostianoy; Alexei Kouraev; Raj Kumar; Sylvie Labroue; Loreley Selene Lago; Juliette Lambin; Léa Lasson; Olivier Laurain; Rémi Laxenaire; Clara Lázaro; Sophie Le Gac; Julien Le Sommer; Pierre-Yves Le Traon; Sergey Lebedev; Fabien Léger; Benoı̂t Legresy; Frank Lemoine; Luc Lenain; Eric Leuliette; Marina Levy; John Lillibridge; Jianqiang Liu; William Llovel; Florent Lyard; Claire Macintosh; Eduard Makhoul Varona; Cécile Manfredi; Frédéric Marin; Evan Mason; Christian Massari; Constantin Mavrocordatos; Nikolai Maximenko; Malcolm McMillan; Thierry Medina; Angelique Melet; Marco Meloni; Stelios Mertikas; Sammy Metref; Benoit Meyssignac; Jean-François Minster; Thomas Moreau; Daniel Moreira; Yves Morel; Rosemary Morrow; John Moyard; Sandrine Mulet; Marc Naeije; Robert Steven Nerem; Hans Ngodock; Karina Nielsen; Jan Even Øie Nilsen; Fernando Niño; Carolina Nogueira Loddo; Camille Noûs; Estelle Obligis; Inès Otosaka; Michiel Otten; Berguzar Oztunali Ozbahceci; Roshin P. Raj; Rodrigo Paiva; Guillermina Paniagua; Fernando Paolo; Adrien Paris; Ananda Pascual; Marcello Passaro; Stephan Paul; Tamlin Pavelsky; Christopher Pearson; Thierry Penduff; Fukai Peng; Felix Perosanz; Nicolas Picot; Fanny Piras; Valerio Poggiali; Étienne Poirier; Sonia Ponce de León; Sergey Prants; Catherine Prigent; Christine Provost; M-Isabelle Pujol; Bo Qiu; Yves Quilfen; Ali Rami; R. Keith Raney; Matthias Raynal; Elisabeth Remy; Frédérique Rémy; Marco Restano; Annie Richardson; Donald Richardson; Robert Ricker; Martina Ricko; Eero Rinne; Stine Kildegaard Rose; Vinca Rosmorduc; Sergei Rudenko; Simón Ruiz; Barbara J. Ryan; Corinne Salaün; Antonio Sanchez-Roman; Louise Sandberg Sørensen; David Sandwell; Martin Saraceno; Michele Scagliola; Philippe Schaeffer; Martin G. Scharffenberg; Remko Scharroo; Andreas Schiller; Raphael Schneider; Christian Schwatke; Andrea Scozzari; Enrico Ser-giacomi; Frederique Seyler; Rashmi Shah; Rashmi Sharma; Andrew Shaw; Andrew Shepherd; Jay Shriver; C.K. Shum; Wim Simons; Sebatian B. Simonsen; Thomas Slater; Walter Smith; Saulo Soares; Mikhail Sokolovskiy; Laurent Soudarin; Ciprian Spatar; Sabrina Speich; Margaret Srinivasan; Meric Srokosz; Emil Stanev; Joanna Staneva; Nathalie Steunou; Julienne Stroeve; Bob Su; Yohanes Budi Sulistioadi; Debadatta Swain; Annick Sylvestre-baron; Nicolas Taburet; Rémi Tailleux; Katsumi Takayama; Byron Tapley; Angelica Tarpanelli; Gilles Tavernier; Laurent Testut; Praveen K. Thakur; Pierre Thibaut; LuAnne Thompson; Joaquín Tintoré; Céline Tison; Cédric Tourain; Jean Tournadre; Bill Townsend; Ngan Tran; Sébastien Trilles; Michel Tsamados; Kuo-Hsin Tseng; Clément Ubelmann; Bernd Uebbing; Oscar Vergara; Jacques Verron; Telmo Vieira; Stefano Vignudelli; Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer; Pieter Visser; Frederic Vivier; Denis Volkov; Karina von Schuckmann; Valerii Vuglinskii; Pierrik Vuilleumier; Blake Walter; Jida Wang; Chao Wang; Christopher Watson; John Wilkin; Josh Willis; Hilary Wilson; Philip Woodworth; Kehan Yang; Fangfang Yao; Raymond Zaharia; Elena Zakharova; Edward D. Zaron; Yongsheng Zhang; Zhongxiang Zhao; Vadim Zinchenko; Victor Zlotnicki; International Altimetry Team

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Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

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Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress

Saleh Abdalla, Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi, Michaël Ablain, Susheel Adusumilli, Suchandra Aich Bhowmick, Eva Alou-Font, Laiba Amarouche, Ole Baltazar Andersen, Helena Antich, Lotfi Aouf, …

Advances in space research, Vol.68(2), pp.319-363

15/07/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2021.01.022

Abstract

Coastal oceanography

Cryospheric sciences

Hydrology

Oceanography

Satellite altimetry

Sea level

In 2018 we celebrated 25 years of development of radar altimetry, and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences. Many symbolic major events have celebrated these developments, e.g., in Venice, Italy, the 15th (2006) and 20th (2012) years of progress and more recently, in 2018, in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 25 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry. On this latter occasion it was decided to collect contributions of scientists, engineers and managers involved in the worldwide altimetry community to depict the state of altimetry and propose recommendations for the altimetry of the future. This paper summarizes contributions and recommendations that were collected and provides guidance for future mission design, research activities, and sustainable operational radar altimetry data exploitation. Recommendations provided are fundamental for optimizing further scientific and operational advances of oceanographic observations by altimetry, including requirements for spatial and temporal resolution of altimetric measurements, their accuracy and continuity. There are also new challenges and new openings mentioned in the paper that are particularly crucial for observations at higher latitudes, for coastal oceanography, for cryospheric studies and for hydrology. The paper starts with a general introduction followed by a section on Earth System Science including Ocean Dynamics, Sea Level, the Coastal Ocean, Hydrology, the Cryosphere and Polar Oceans and the “Green” Ocean, extending the frontier from biogeochemistry to marine ecology. Applications are described in a subsequent section, which covers Operational Oceanography, Weather, Hurricane Wave and Wind Forecasting, Climate projection. Instruments’ development and satellite missions’ evolutions are described in a fourth section. A fifth section covers the key observations that altimeters provide and their potential complements, from other Earth observation measurements to in situ data. Section 6 identifies the data and methods and provides some accuracy and resolution requirements for the wet tropospheric correction, the orbit and other geodetic requirements, the Mean Sea Surface, Geoid and Mean Dynamic Topography, Calibration and Validation, data accuracy, data access and handling (including the DUACS system). Section 7 brings a transversal view on scales, integration, artificial intelligence, and capacity building (education and training). Section 8 reviews the programmatic issues followed by a conclusion.

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Title: Altimetry for the future: Building on 25 years of progress
Creators - without role: Saleh Abdalla - ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Abdolnabi Abdeh Kolahchi - SCWMRI, AREEO, Jalal St. Shahrak Esteglal, Tehran 1389817635, Iran
Michaël Ablain - Magellium, 1 Rue Ariane, 31520 Ramonville Saint Agne, France
Susheel Adusumilli - University of California, San Diego
Suchandra Aich Bhowmick - Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India
Eva Alou-Font - SOCIB, Parc Bit, Palma de Mallorca 07121, Spain
Laiba Amarouche - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Ole Baltazar Andersen - Technical University of Denmark
Helena Antich - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
Lotfi Aouf - Météo-France
Brian Arbic - University of Michigan, Dept Earth Env. Sci., 1100 North University Avenue, 2534 North Univ. Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, United States
Thomas Armitage - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sabine Arnault - Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
Camila Artana - Mercator Ocean
Giuseppe Aulicino - Università Degli Studi Di Napoli Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Is C4, Napoli 80143, Italy
Nadia Ayoub - Université de Toulouse
Sergei Badulin - Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36, Nakhimovskii Pr., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
Steven Baker - UCL-MSSL, Department of Space and Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey RH5 6NT, United Kingdom
Chris Banks - National Oceanography Centre
Lifeng Bao - Institute of Geodesy and Geophysics
Silvia Barbetta - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
Bàrbara Barceló-Llull - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
François Barlier - Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Sujit Basu
Peter Bauer-Gottwein - Technical University of Denmark
Matthias Becker - Technical University of Darmstadt
Brian Beckley - Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies
Nicole Bellefond - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Tatyana Belonenko - St Petersburg University
Mounir Benkiran - Mercator Ocean
Touati Benkouider - Centre of Space Techniques, PO Box 13, Arzew, Oran 31200, Algeria
Ralf Bennartz - Vanderbilt University
Jérôme Benveniste - European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM 00044, Italy
Nicolas Bercher - Altihydrolab.fr, 25 Avenue Du 11 Novembre, 69110 Sainte-foy-lès-lyon, France
Muriel Berge-Nguyen - Université de Toulouse
Joao Bettencourt - Centec
Fabien Blarel - Université de Toulouse
Alejandro Blazquez - Université de Toulouse
Denis Blumstein - Université de Toulouse
Pascal Bonnefond - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres
Franck Borde - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Jérôme Bouffard - European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM 00044, Italy
François Boy - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Jean-Paul Boy - Descartes
Cédric Brachet - CNRS/INSU/DT, Bâtiment IPEV CS 50074, 29280 Plouzané, France
Pierre Brasseur - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Alexander Braun - Queen's University
Luca Brocca - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
David Brockley - UCL-MSSL, Department of Space and Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey RH5 6NT, United Kingdom
Laurent Brodeau - Ocean Next, 90 chemin du Moulin, 38660 La Terrasse, France
Shannon Brown - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Sean Bruinsma - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Anna Bulczak - Institute of Oceanology PAS, Powstancow Warszawy55, Sopot, Pomorskie 81-712, Poland
Sammie Buzzard - University College London, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Gower Street, London, London WCE1 6BT, United Kingdom
Madeleine Cahill - Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB 3, Townsville MC, Queensland 4810, Australia
Stéphane Calmant - Université de Toulouse
Michel Calzas - CNRS/INSU/DT, Bâtiment IPEV CS 50074, 29280 Plouzané, France
Stefania Camici - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
Mathilde Cancet - Noveltis
Hugues Capdeville - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Claudia Cristina Carabajal - Goddard Space Flight Center
Loren Carrere - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Anny Cazenave - Université de Toulouse
Eric P. Chassignet - Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, 2000 Levy Avenue, Building A, Room 259, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
Prakash Chauhan - Indian Institute of Remote Sensing
Selma Cherchali - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Teresa Chereskin - University of California, San Diego
Cecile Cheymol - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Daniele Ciani - CNR-ISMAR, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome 00133, Italy
Paolo Cipollini - European Space Agency, ESA/ECSAT, Harwell, Didcot, ESA-ECSAT, Fermi Avenue, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0FD, United Kingdom
Francesca Cirillo - Airbus, Claude Dornier Strasse, Immenstaad, Baden-Württemberg 88090, Germany
Emmanuel Cosme - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Steve Coss - The Ohio State University
Yuri Cotroneo - Università Degli Studi Di Napoli Parthenope, Centro Direzionale Is C4, Napoli 80143, Italy
David Cotton - Mills
Alexandre Couhert - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Sophie Coutin-Faye - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Jean-François Crétaux - Université de Toulouse
Frederic Cyr - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Francesco d’Ovidio - Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
José Darrozes - Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Cedric David - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Nadim Dayoub - National Oceanography Centre
Danielle De Staerke - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Xiaoli Deng - School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Shailen Desai - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jean-Damien Desjonqueres - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Denise Dettmering - Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, Munich 80333, Germany
Alessandro Di Bella - Technical University of Denmark
Lara Díaz-Barroso - SOCIB, Parc Bit, Palma de Mallorca 07121, Spain
Gerald Dibarboure - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Habib Boubacar Dieng - Université de Toulouse
Salvatore Dinardo - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Henryk Dobslaw - GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam 14473, Germany
Guillaume Dodet - Ifremer
Andrea Doglioli - Aix-Marseille University
Alessio Domeneghetti - University of Bologna
David Donahue - NOAA Office of Satellite and Product Operations, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Shenfu Dong - NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories
Craig Donlon - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Joël Dorandeu - Magellium, 1 Rue Ariane, 31520 Ramonville Saint Agne, France
Christine Drezen - CNRS/INSU/DT, Bâtiment IPEV CS 50074, 29280 Plouzané, France
Mark Drinkwater - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Yves Du Penhoat - Université de Toulouse
Brian Dushaw - Unaffiliated, Carrer De La Barca 10, 3-1, Girona, Girona 17004, Spain
Alejandro Egido - NOAA-LSA/GST Inc., 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Svetlana Erofeeva - Oregon State University
Philippe Escudier - Retired from CNES, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Saskia Esselborn - GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam 14473, Germany
Pierre Exertier - Géosciences Environnement Toulouse
Ronan Fablet - LMT Atlantique, Technopôle Brest-iroise, 29238 Brest, France
Cédric Falco - Université de Perpignan, 52 avenue Paul Alduy, 66000 Perpignan, France
Sinead Louise Farrell - University of Maryland, Department of Geographical Sciences, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Yannice Faugere - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Pierre Femenias - European Space Agency (ESA-ESRIN), Largo Galileo Galilei, 1, Frascati, RM 00044, Italy
Luciana Fenoglio - University of Bonn
Joana Fernandes
Juan Gabriel Fernández - SOCIB, Parc Bit, Palma de Mallorca 07121, Spain
Pascale Ferrage - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Ramiro Ferrari - Cima - Conicet, Dr. Pedro I. Rivera 5010, Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires 1431, Argentina
Lionel Fichen - CNRS/INSU/DT, Bâtiment IPEV CS 50074, 29280 Plouzané, France
Paolo Filippucci - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
Stylianos Flampouris - Hong Kong Standards and Testing Centre (China, Shanghai) - STC
Sara Fleury - Université de Toulouse
Marco Fornari - Rhea
Rene Forsberg - Technical University of Denmark
Frédéric Frappart - Université de Toulouse
Marie-laure Frery - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Pablo Garcia - Marie Curie
Albert Garcia-Mondejar - Marie Curie
Julia Gaudelli - UCL-MSSL, Department of Space and Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey RH5 6NT, United Kingdom
Lucile Gaultier - OceanDataLab, 870 route de Deolen, 29280 Locmaria-Plouzané, France
Augusto Getirana - Goddard Space Flight Center
Ferran Gibert - Marie Curie
Artur Gil - Universidade dos Açores
Lin Gilbert - UCL-MSSL, Department of Space and Climate Physics, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St Mary, Surrey RH5 6NT, United Kingdom
Sarah Gille - University of California, San Diego
Luisella Giulicchi - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Jesús Gómez-Enri - Universidad de Cádiz
Laura Gómez-Navarro - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Christine Gommenginger - National Oceanography Centre
Lionel Gourdeau - Université de Toulouse
David Griffin - CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Andreas Groh - Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Helmholtzstr. 10, Dresden, Saxony 01062, Germany
Alexandre Guerin - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Raul Guerrero - Universidad Nacional De Mar Del Plata, +542235900598, Mar Del Plata, Buenos Aires 7600, Argentina
Thierry Guinle - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Praveen Gupta - Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India
Benjamin D. Gutknecht - Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Helmholtzstr. 10, Dresden, Saxony 01062, Germany
Mathieu Hamon - Mercator Ocean
Guoqi Han - Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Danièle Hauser - Latmos (CNRS-UVSQ- Sorbonne-université), 11 Boulevard D’alembert, 78280 Guyancourt, France
Veit Helm - Polar
Stefan Hendricks - Polar
Fabrice Hernandez - IRD/LEGOS/UFPE/DOCEAN, Departamento De Oceanografia Da Universidade Federal De Pernambuco Av Arquitetura S/n, Recife, Pernambuco 50740-550, Brazil
Anna Hogg - University of Leeds
Martin Horwath - Technische Universität Dresden, Institut für Planetare Geodäsie, Helmholtzstr. 10, Dresden, Saxony 01062, Germany
Martina Idžanović - Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Peter Janssen - Retired from ECMWF, Shinfield Park, Reading, Berkshire RG2 9AX, United Kingdom
Eric Jeansou - Noveltis
Yongjun Jia - National Satellite Ocean Application Service
Yuanyuan Jia - The Ohio State University
Liguang Jiang - Technical University of Denmark
Johnny A. Johannessen - NERSC, Thormoehlensgate 47, Bergen 5006, Norway
Masafumi Kamachi - Jamstec, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0001, Japan
Svetlana Karimova - UFA
Kathryn Kelly - University of Washington
Sung Yong Kim - Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 32141, Republic of Korea
Robert King - Met Office
Cecile M.M. Kittel - Technical University of Denmark
Patrice Klein - École Normale Supérieure
Anna Klos - Military University
Per Knudsen - Technical University of Denmark
Rolf Koenig - GFZ Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam 14473, Germany
Andrey Kostianoy - Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, 36, Nakhimovskii Pr., Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation
Alexei Kouraev - Université de Toulouse
Raj Kumar - Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India
Sylvie Labroue - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Loreley Selene Lago - University of Buenos Aires
Juliette Lambin - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Léa Lasson - Université de Toulouse
Olivier Laurain - Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Rémi Laxenaire - Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Florida State University, 2000 Levy Avenue, Building A, Room 259, Tallahassee, FL 32306, United States
Clara Lázaro
Sophie Le Gac - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Julien Le Sommer - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Pierre-Yves Le Traon - Mercator Ocean
Sergey Lebedev - Geophysical Center
Fabien Léger - Université de Toulouse
Benoı̂t Legresy - CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Frank Lemoine - NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 61A, Geodesy & Geophysics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States
Luc Lenain - University of California, San Diego
Eric Leuliette - NOAA Laboratory For Satellite Altimetry, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Marina Levy - Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
John Lillibridge - Retired from NOAA, 29 Shore Lane, Wells, ME 04090, United States
Jianqiang Liu - National Satellite Ocean Application Service
William Llovel - Ifremer
Florent Lyard - Université de Toulouse
Claire Macintosh - University of Reading
Eduard Makhoul Varona - Marie Curie
Cécile Manfredi - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Frédéric Marin - Université de Toulouse
Evan Mason - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
Christian Massari - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
Constantin Mavrocordatos - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Nikolai Maximenko - University of Hawaii System
Malcolm McMillan - Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire LA1 4YW, United Kingdom
Thierry Medina - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Angelique Melet - Mercator Ocean
Marco Meloni - Serco
Stelios Mertikas - Technical University of Crete
Sammy Metref - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Benoit Meyssignac - Université de Toulouse
Jean-François Minster - Ifremer
Thomas Moreau - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Daniel Moreira - Serviço Geológico do Brasil - CPRM
Yves Morel - Université de Toulouse
Rosemary Morrow - Université de Toulouse
John Moyard - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Sandrine Mulet - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Marc Naeije - Delft University of Technology
Robert Steven Nerem - Aero
Hans Ngodock - Stennis Space Center
Karina Nielsen - Technical University of Denmark
Jan Even Øie Nilsen - Institute For Marine Research, Strandgaten 196, Bergen 5004, Norway
Fernando Niño - Université de Toulouse
Carolina Nogueira Loddo - EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, Darmstadt, Hessen 64295, Germany
Camille Noûs - Descartes
Estelle Obligis - EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, Darmstadt, Hessen 64295, Germany
Inès Otosaka - University of Leeds
Michiel Otten - European Space Agency, Robert-bosch-strasse 5, Darmstadt, Hessen 64293, Germany
Berguzar Oztunali Ozbahceci - Izmir Institute of Technology
Roshin P. Raj - NERSC, Thormoehlensgate 47, Bergen 5006, Norway
Rodrigo Paiva - IPH UFRGS, Av. Bento Gonçalves, 9500, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil
Guillermina Paniagua - CIUDAD
Fernando Paolo - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Adrien Paris - Ocean Next, 90 chemin du Moulin, 38660 La Terrasse, France
Ananda Pascual - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
Marcello Passaro - Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, Munich 80333, Germany
Stephan Paul - Universität München, Luisenstr. 37, München, Bavaria 80333, Germany
Tamlin Pavelsky - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
Christopher Pearson - Newcastle University, Cassie Building, School of Engineeing, Newcastle, NE17RU, United Kingdom
Thierry Penduff - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Fukai Peng - School of Engineering, The University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia
Felix Perosanz - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Nicolas Picot - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Fanny Piras - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Valerio Poggiali - Cornell University
Étienne Poirier - LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés (LIENSs), UMR 7266, CNRS/La Rochelle Université, 2, Rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France
Sonia Ponce de León - Centec
Sergey Prants - Pacific Oceanological Institute of The Russian Academy of Sciences, 43 Baltiiskaya St., Vladivostok, Primorye 690041, Russian Federation
Catherine Prigent - CNRS, LERMA, Observatoire de Paris, 61 avenue de l’Observatoire, 75014 Paris, France
Christine Provost - Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
M-Isabelle Pujol - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Bo Qiu - University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Yves Quilfen - Ifremer
Ali Rami - Centre of Space Techniques, PO Box 13, Arzew, Oran 31200, Algeria
R. Keith Raney - Product Innovation and Engineering (United States, Saint James) - LLC
Matthias Raynal - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Elisabeth Remy - Mercator Ocean
Frédérique Rémy - Université de Toulouse
Marco Restano - Serco
Annie Richardson - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Donald Richardson - NOAA Center for Weather and Climate, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Robert Ricker - Polar
Martina Ricko - KBR, at NASA/GSFC, 7701 Greenbelt Rd., Suite 400, Greenbelt, MD 20770, United States
Eero Rinne - Finnish Meteorological Institute
Stine Kildegaard Rose - Technical University of Denmark
Vinca Rosmorduc - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Sergei Rudenko - Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, Munich 80333, Germany
Simón Ruiz - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
Barbara J. Ryan - Former Director Group on Earth Observations (GEO), 10090 Tropical Drive, Bonita Springs, Florida 34135, United States
Corinne Salaün - Shom, 13 Rue De Chatellier, 29200 Brest, France
Antonio Sanchez-Roman - IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), C/Miquel Marquès, 21, Esporles, Baleares 07190, Spain
Louise Sandberg Sørensen - Technical University of Denmark
David Sandwell - University of California, San Diego
Martin Saraceno - Institute of Astronomy and Space Physics
Michele Scagliola - SRL
Philippe Schaeffer - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Martin G. Scharffenberg - Universität Hamburg
Remko Scharroo - EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, Darmstadt, Hessen 64295, Germany
Andreas Schiller - CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
Raphael Schneider - Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
Christian Schwatke - Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut der Technischen Universität München (DGFI-TUM), Arcisstrasse 21, Munich 80333, Germany
Andrea Scozzari - CNR - ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56124, Italy
Enrico Ser-giacomi - Mit-eaps, Via Forli’ 13, Perugia 06134, Italy
Frederique Seyler - University of Montpellier
Rashmi Shah - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rashmi Sharma - Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India
Andrew Shaw - Skymat Ltd, 11 Cedar Crescent, North Baddesley, Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Andrew Shepherd - University of Leeds
Jay Shriver - Stennis Space Center
C.K. Shum - The Ohio State University
Wim Simons - Delft University of Technology
Sebatian B. Simonsen - Technical University of Denmark
Thomas Slater - University of Leeds
Walter Smith - NOAA Laboratory For Satellite Altimetry, 5830 University Research Court, College Park, MD 20740, United States
Saulo Soares - University of California, San Diego
Mikhail Sokolovskiy - Water Problems Institute of Russian Academy of Science, 3 Gubkina Str., Moscow, Moscow 119333, Russian Federation
Laurent Soudarin - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Ciprian Spatar - Newcastle University, Cassie Building, School of Engineeing, Newcastle, NE17RU, United Kingdom
Sabrina Speich - LMD-IPSL, ENS-PSL, 24 Rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
Margaret Srinivasan - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Meric Srokosz - National Oceanography Centre
Emil Stanev - Coastal Carolina University
Joanna Staneva - Coastal Carolina University
Nathalie Steunou - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Julienne Stroeve - University College London, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Gower Street, London, London WCE1 6BT, United Kingdom
Bob Su - University of Twente
Yohanes Budi Sulistioadi - Mulawarman University
Debadatta Swain - Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar
Annick Sylvestre-baron - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Nicolas Taburet - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Rémi Tailleux - University of Reading
Katsumi Takayama - Kyushu University
Byron Tapley - The University of Texas at Austin
Angelica Tarpanelli - IRPI-CNR, Via Madonna Alta 126, Perugia 06128, Italy
Gilles Tavernier - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Laurent Testut - Université de Toulouse
Praveen K. Thakur - Space Applications Centre, ISRO, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380058, India
Pierre Thibaut - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
LuAnne Thompson - University of Washington
Joaquín Tintoré - SOCIB, Parc Bit, Palma de Mallorca 07121, Spain
Céline Tison - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Cédric Tourain - CNES, Centre Spatial de Toulouse, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Jean Tournadre - Ifremer
Bill Townsend - Product Innovation and Engineering (United States, Saint James) - LLC
Ngan Tran - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Sébastien Trilles - Thales Alenia Space
Michel Tsamados - University College London, Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Gower Street, London, London WCE1 6BT, United Kingdom
Kuo-Hsin Tseng - Center for Space and Remote Sensing Research, National Central University, 300 Jhongda Rd, Jhongli Dist, Taoyuan32001, Taiwan
Clément Ubelmann - Ocean Next, 90 chemin du Moulin, 38660 La Terrasse, France
Bernd Uebbing - University of Bonn
Oscar Vergara - CLS, 11 rue Hermès, Parc Technologique du Canal, 31520 Ramonville St Agne, France
Jacques Verron - Grenoble Institute of Technology
Telmo Vieira
Stefano Vignudelli - CNR, C/o Area Ricerca Cnr - Via Moruzzi 1, Pisa 56127, Italy
Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer - Spiekermann and Wegener
Pieter Visser - Delft University of Technology
Frederic Vivier - Sorbonne Université, LOCEAN-IPSL, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, 75005 Paris, France
Denis Volkov - University of Miami
Karina von Schuckmann - Mercator Ocean
Valerii Vuglinskii - State Hydrological Institute
Pierrik Vuilleumier - European Space Agency, ESTEC, Keplerlaan 1, Noordwijk, 2201 AZ, The Netherlands
Blake Walter - Kansas State University
Jida Wang - Kansas State University
Chao Wang - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States
Christopher Watson - University of Tasmania
John Wilkin - Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Josh Willis - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Hilary Wilson - EUMETSAT, Eumetsat Allee 1, Darmstadt, Hessen 64295, Germany
Philip Woodworth - National Oceanography Centre
Kehan Yang - University of Colorado Boulder
Fangfang Yao - Kansas State University
Raymond Zaharia - Retired from CNES, 18 Avenue Edouard Belin, 31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France
Elena Zakharova - EOLA ME/ Water Problem Institute RAS, Goubkina, 3, Moscow 117971, Russian Federation
Edward D. Zaron - Portland State University
Yongsheng Zhang - NOAA/NESDIS/National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) - UMD/ESSIC/CISESS, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910, United States
Zhongxiang Zhao - University of Washington
Vadim Zinchenko - St. Petersburg State University, University Embankment, 7/9, Saint-Petersburg, Saint-Petersburg 199034, Russian Federation
Victor Zlotnicki - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
International Altimetry Team
Publication Details: Advances in space research, Vol.68(2), pp.319-363
Publisher: Elsevier B.V
Identifiers: 9943366108331
Academic Unit: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article