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Product: Instantaneous Dynamic Ocean Topography (iDOT)
Version: 33
Mission: CryoSat-2

Parameter Description
jday.00 Julian Day
Julian Day Epoch 2000.0 (2000-01-01 12:00:00 UTC)
Julian Day 2000 values are truncated in MVA after 5-digits!
glon.00 Longitude
glat.00 Latitude
Source: GDR (Baseline C)
Original-Parameter: lat
dot.33 Dynamic Ocean Topography (DOT)
GOCO05S, filter length=69km
Reference: Bosch W., Savcenko R., Dettmering D., Schwatke C.: A two-decade time series of eddy-resolving dynamic ocean topography (iDOT). In: Ouwehand L. (Ed.) Proceedings of "20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry", Sept. 2012, Venice, Italy, ESA SP-710 (CD-ROM), ISBN 978-92-9221-274-2, ESA/ESTEC, 2013
gflags.33 Geophysical Corrections Quality Flags
Flags:
1 : dtrop not in [-2.5,...,-1.9]
2 : wtrop not in [-0.5,...,-0.001]
4 : ionos not in [-0.4,...,0.01]
8 : emb not in [-0.4,...,0.01]
16 : oer not in [-0.038,...,0.024]
128 : fic > 128
oflags.00 Orbit Status and Quality Flags
iflags.00 Instrument Status and Quality Flags

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