Product-Documentation

Product: Sea Level Anomalies (SLA)
Version: 40
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
sla.40 Sea Level Anomalies
DTU15, EOT20, DAC, MMXO22
MVA-Parameters:
- Instrument Status and Quality Flags (iflags.00)
- Ocean Tide Correction of EOT20 (otide.22)
- Mean Sea Surface Height from DTU15 (mssh.05)
- Altimeter Range (ralt.00)
- Ionospheric correction (ionos.02)
- Pole Tide Correction (ptide.05)
- Inverse Barometer Effect from DAC (AVISO) (invb.05)
- Ocean Load Tide Correction of EOT20 (ltide.22)
- Satellite Altitude above TOPEX Ellipsoid (hsat.00)
- Dry Tropospheric Correction from Vienna Mapping Function (VMF3) (dtrop.06)
- Wet Tropospheric Correction from Vienna Mapping Function (VMF3) (wtrop.06)
- Undefined parameter (emb.00)
- Internal Tide Correction (itide.01)
- Orbit Status and Quality Flags (oflags.00)
- Solid Earth Tide Correction using IERS Convention 2010 (etide.06)
- Radial Orbit Error from MMXO22 (oer.22)
gflags.40 Geophysical Corrections Quality Flags
MVA-Parameters:
- Ionospheric correction (ionos.02)
- Dry Tropospheric Correction from Vienna Mapping Function (VMF3) (dtrop.06)
- Fractional Ice Concentration from NSIDC (fic.01)
- Wet Tropospheric Correction from Vienna Mapping Function (VMF3) (wtrop.06)
- Undefined parameter (emb.00)
- Radial Orbit Error from MMXO22 (oer.22)
oflags.00 Orbit Status and Quality Flags
iflags.00 Instrument Status and Quality Flags

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