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CryoSat-2 and SWIM (CFOSAT) significant wave height and wave period

Authors/Creators

Contributors

Data curator:

Project leader:

  • 1. Instituto Superior Técnico , Universidade de Lisboa
  • 2. ROR icon Météo-France

Description

The repository contains two datasets. The first one includes altimeter data on significant wave height, wave period, and wave power density for four areas along the European coast of the Atlantic Ocean: PT (Portugal), FF (French Façade), UK (British Isles), and BN (Baltic and Atlantic waters near Norway). This dataset was obtained within the framework of the WAPOSAL project (https://eo4society.esa.int/projects/waposal/).

The second dataset contains data from the SWIM radar onboard CFOSAT satellite on significant wave height and wave period. The method for data processing is outlined in Jiang et al. (2022).




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Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.5281/zenodo.17793092

Related works

Documents
Journal article: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131712 (DOI)
Journal article: 10.1016/j.rse.2022.113149 (DOI)

Dates

Accepted
2019-01-01/2023-12-31
CryoSat-2 and SWIM (CFOSAT) data

References

  • Ponce de León, S.; Restano, M.; Benveniste, Assessing the wave power density in the Atlantic French façade from high-resolution CryoSat-2 SAR altimetry data, Energy, Volume 302, 2024, 131712, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2024.131712
  • Jiang, H., Song, Y., Mironov, A., Yang, Z., Xu, Y., & Liu, J. (2022). Accurate mean395 wave period from swim instrument on-board cfosat. Remote Sensing of Envi-396 ronment, 280 , 113149. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113149