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ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci): Nadir radar altimeters Water Level product, v1.1

Update Frequency: Not Planned
Latest Data Update: 2023-12-06
Status: Completed
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Citable
Publication Date: 2024-03-15
DOI Publication Date: 2024-03-15
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 746 Files | 33MB
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.

Citable as:  Biancamaria, S.; Boussaroque, M.; Gal, L.; Kitambo, B.; Lefebve, J.; Papa, F.; Paris, A.; Vayre, M.; Zakharova, E. (2024): ESA River Discharge Climate Change Initiative (RD_cci): Nadir radar altimeters Water Level product, v1.1. NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 15 March 2024. doi:10.5285/c5f0aa806ec444b4a4209b49efc4bb65. https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/c5f0aa806ec444b4a4209b49efc4bb65
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: CCI, Water Level, River Discharge

Details

Previous Info:
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Access rules:
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: 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
File Format:
Data are provided in both CSV and NetCDF

Related Documents

 ESA Climate Change Initiative Website
 River Discharge CCI project website
 Product user guide
 Algorithm Theoretical Baseline Document (ATBD)

Process overview

This dataset was generated by a combination of instruments deployed on platforms and computations as detailed below.

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.

Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1992-12-22T00:00:00
End time:
2023-09-18T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
90.0000°
  
-180.0000°
  
180.0000°
 
-90.0000°
  
Related parties
Authors (9)
Publishers (1)