This page can be used to obtain altimeter measurements of Sea Level
Anomaly (SLA), Significant Wave Height (SWH) and Wind Speed from a specific
satellite, area and period. The program used to retrieve the altimeter
measurements from the RADS data base is raw2asc which in
turn calls the subroutine getraw.
After filling in this form and clicking the Select button you will
get access to:
Statistics of SLA, SWH and Wind Speed for the selected data
Data files containing SLA, SWH, and Wind Speed
A map of the area and the location of the satellite tracks
Plots of SLA, SWH and Wind Speed as a function of latitude
The required arguments for the selection are:
satellite and mission phase
cycle number range
pass number range
Optional arguments are:
longitude: specify longitude boundaries (in degrees) (west and east
boundaries should be increasing in value)
latitude: specify latitude boundaries (in degrees)
time: specify time range (as [YY]YYMMDD[HHMMSS])
SLA: specify sea level anomaly range (m)
Geophysical parameters can be selected:
reference surface: geoid, mean sea surface model or ellipsoid
ocean tides: select model or none
load tide: select model or none
inverse barometer correction: standard model applied or not
wet tropospheric correction: radiometer, model or none
After filling in the necessary fields, click the Select button.
This page is under
construction