ESA Sea State Climate Change Initiative (Sea_State_cci): Version 1.1 data collection

The ESA Sea State CCI project has produced global multi-sensor time-series of satellite altimeter significant wave height data with a particular focus for use in climate studies. A number of products are available: a Level 2P (L2P) along-track dataset, a Level 3 (L3) daily merged along-track dataset, and a L4 montly gridded product.

This first version of the Sea State CCI products is inherited from the GlobWave project, building on experience and existing outputs. It extends and improves the GlobWave products ,which were a post-processing over existing L2 altimeter agency products with additional filtering, corrections and variables. A major improvement consists in a new denoised sea surface height variable using Empirical Mode Decomposition, which was used as input to these monthly statistical fields.

The altimeter data used in the Sea State CCI dataset v1.1 come from multiple satellite missions spanning from 1991 to 2018 (ERS-1, ERS-2, Topex, Envisat, GFO, CryoSat-2, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, SARAL). Many altimeters are bi-frequency (Ku-C or Ku-S) and only measurements in Ku band were used, for consistency reasons, being available on each altimeter but SARAL (Ka band).

Date (Publication): 2020-01-30T16:57:55

Date (Creation): 2020-01-30T16:57:55

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c0edac5a52c64e55ab61bc49a493ef9c

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / c0edac5a52c64e55ab61bc49a493ef9c

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Piollé, Jean-François	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Dodet, Guillaume	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Quilfen, Yves	Unavailable	Author
NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
CCI Open Data Portal		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

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CCI
Sea State
significant wave height

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Language: English

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Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1991-07-31T23:00:00

End date: 2018-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

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Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/c0edac5a52c64e55ab61bc49a493ef9c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://climate.esa.int/projects/sea-state/	ESA CCI Sea State project website

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Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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Date stamp: 2025-06-24T02:28:06

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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