Το work with title GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites by Mertikas Stelios, Donlon, Craig J, Mavrocordatos, Constantin, Tziavos, Ilias N, Galanakis Dimitrios, Vergos Georgios S., Andersen Ole Baltazar, Tripolitsiotis Achilleas, Frantzis Xenofon, Lin Mingsen, Qiao Fangli is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
S. Mertikas, C. DonLon, C. Mavrocordatos, I. Tziavos, D. Galanakis, G. Vergos, O. B. Andersen, A. Tripolitsiotis, X. Frantzis, M. Lin and F. Qiao, "GAVDOS/west crete cal-val site: Over a decade calibrations for Jason series, SARAL/Altika, cryoSat-2, Sentinel-3 and HY-2 altimeter satellites," in ESA Living Planet Symposium, 2016.
This work presents and compares the latest altimeter calibration results for Jason series, the SARAL/AltiKa the Chinese HY-2 missions and the ESA missions of CryoSat-2 and Sentinel-3, conducted at the Gavdos/Crete calibration/validation facilities. At first, the Jason altimeter calibration values will be given for the ascending Pass No.109 and the descending Pass No.18, based on the GDR-E (Jason-1), GDR-D (Jason-2) and GDR-T (Jason-3) products. Secondly, these values will be cross-examined against the altimeter bias for the SARAL/AltiKa (GDR-T) satellite at Gavdos Cal/Val using its reference ascending orbit No. 571. The Chinese HY-2 satellite altimeter bias will be presented using the CRS1 permanent site in southwest Crete for the descending HY-2 Pass No. 280, at 20 Hz based on SGDR data products. Finally, values will be compared against the Sentinel-3 altimeter. Additionally, altimeter biases as determined by locally developed Mean Sea Surface models, will be presented and compared with the conventional sea-surface calibration methodology.