Dataset
ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci): Nadir radar altimeters Water Level product, v1.1
Abstract
This dataset contains water level (WL) data from the ESA Climate Change Initiative River Discharge project (RD_cci). Water level in this context corresponds to the distance between river surface water and a reference surface (the WGS84 ellipsoid). This physical variable might also be referred to as Water Surface Elevation (WSE) in other dataset or publications.
These river water level time series have been computed in at 54 locations (within 18 river basins). The data has been derived from nadir viewing satellite radar altimeter missions (ERS-2, Envisat, Saral, Topex-Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, Sentinel-3A/B and Sentinel 6). At each location, time series are provided for each available single nadir radar altimetry mission. Based on these single mission time series, merged multi-missions WL time series have also been produced.
Details
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Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence(s): https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/licences/specific_licences/esacci_river_discharge_terms_and_conditions.pdf When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record. |
| Data lineage: |
Data were produced by the project team and supplied for archiving at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA). |
| Data Quality: |
For information on the data quality see the related documentation
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| File Format: |
Data are provided in both CSV and NetCDF
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Process overview
Instrument/Platform pairings
| SSALT | Deployed on: TOPEX/Poseidon |
| Poseidon-2 | Deployed on: JASON-1 |
| Poseidon-3 | Deployed on: JASON-2 |
| Poseidon-3B | Deployed on: JASON-3 |
| Poseidon-4 | Deployed on: Sentinel-6A |
| Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2) | Deployed on: Envisat |
| RA | Deployed on: European Remote Sensing satellite 2 - ERS-2 |
| AltiKa | Deployed on: SARAL (Satellite with ARGOS and AltiKa) |
| Sentinel 3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) | Deployed on: Sentinel 3A |
| Sentinel 3 Synthetic Aperture Radar Altimeter (SRAL) | Deployed on: Sentinel 3B |
Computation Element: 1
| Title | Derivation of the ESA Climate Change Initiative River Discharge Water Level product, v1.1 |
| Abstract | For information on the derivation of the Water Level dataset see the project documentation (https://climate.esa.int/projects/river-discharge) |
| Input Description | None |
| Output Description | None |
| Software Reference | None |
| Output Description | None |
No variables found.
Temporal Range
1992-12-22T00:00:00
2023-09-18T23:59:59
Geographic Extent
90.0000° |
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-180.0000° |
180.0000° |
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-90.0000° |