Source/Sensor: Geos-3 altimeter

Coverage: 14 April 1975 - 1 December 1978, global

Abstract: These data consist of Geos-3 altimeter measurements produced by NOAA/NODC/Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. The data set contains 5,006,956 altimetric sea surface heights and supporting information such as sea state, wind speed, Schwiderski ocean tide height, and Cartwright solid-tide height. Corrections for altimeter bias, wet and dry troposheric delays, and electromagnetic bias are not included. The corrections in this data set (tides and even orbit height) are old and not very accurate. This data set should only be used by those with expertise in altimetry. Measurements are compressed to a rate of 1 per second using a trim mean filter. Data values are written in binary format. Read software is provided.

For more information, please refer to the on-line documentation:
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/documents/dataset_docs/geos3_gdr.html

Data Set Volume: ~260 MB

Smallest order: Entire data set

Std. Product: FTP or 8mm tape

Data/Media Formats: Binary data are provided on 8 mm tape using LINUX Tar or via anonymous FTP to podaac.jpl.nasa.gov in the pub/sea_surface_height/geos3 directory.