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  • The mean sea surface (MSS) is an important field in physical oceanography, geophysics, and geodesy. In principle, it corresponds to the time-averaged height of the ocean surface. Auxiliary product : mean sea profile above a reference ellipsoid (T/P or WSG84). This surface is available on a regular grid (1/60°x1/60°, 1 minute). The mean sea surface MSS_CNES_CLS2025 (Charayon et al., in prep) has been computed using a 29-year [1993-2021] period of altimetric data. It was built exploring the use of SWOT KaRIn data to propose a new generation MSS able to better represent small wavelengths gapping state-of-the-art nadir-based MSS. Long wavelengths come from a MSS draft chosen to be the Hybrid 23 MSS (https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2024.002 ) low pass filtered at 20km since this nadir-based MSS model already captured well long wavelengths. The wavelengths shorter than 100km are improved thanks to a SWOT-KaRIn mean profile anomaly to the MSS draft. This mean profile anomaly is built with: - The SWOT-KaRIn science (L3 v3.0 Expert, cycles 1 to 31 included except cycle 17, https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2023.018) dataset - The experimental multimission gridded L4 sea level heights and velocities with SWOT using MIOST (https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a01-2025.001 ). - In SWOT diamonds, since KaRIn data are not available, we used another innovation only based on DT2024 1Hz CryoSat2 and AltiKa SSHA data (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00146), period from 2010 to 2025, SSHA data relative to MSS Hybrid 23 low pass filtered at 5km. To build this nadir-based innovation, we used the static part of the mapping from MIOST method.

  • These gridded products are produced from the following upstream data: - for satellites SARAL/AltiKa, Cryosat-2, HaiYang-2B, Jason-3, Copernicus Sentinel-3A/B, Sentinel-6 MF, SWOT Nadir => NRT (Near-Real-Time) Nadir along-track (or Level-3) SEA LEVEL products (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00147) delivered by the Copernicus Marine Service (http://marine.copernicus.eu/ ). The gridded product is based on near-real-time (NRT) Level-3 Nadir datasets for the period from July 7, 2025, to December 31, 2025. => MY (Multi-Year) Nadir along-track (or Level-3) SEA LEVEL products (DOI: https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00146 ) delivered by the Copernicus Marine Service (CMEMS, http://marine.copernicus.eu/ ). The gridded product is based on MY Level-3 Nadir datasets for the period from March 28, 2023, to July 6, 2025. - for SWOT KaRIn : the L3_LR_SSH Expert v3.0 product distributed by AVISO (DOI: https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/A01-2023.018) from March 28, 2023 to December 31, 2025. One mapping algorithm is proposed: the MIOST approach which provides which provides global Sea Surface Height (SSH) solutions. The MIOST method is capable of accounting for various modes of ocean surface topography variability (e.g., geostrophic, barotropic, equatorial wave dynamics) by constructing multiple independent components within a predefined covariance model.

  • This dataset provides an estimation of the climate feedback parameter and the climate sensitivity developed in collaboration by Magellium and LEGOS. It is based on the publication of Meyssignac et al., (2023, https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-00887-2) . The product is a crucial study on Effective Climate Sensitivity (ECS), focusing on the time variation of the climate feedback parameter (λ). Understanding λ is fundamental as it quantifies the Earth’s radiative response to changes in global average temperature. A less negative λ directly implies a greater climate sensitivity to greenhouse gas concentrations. The product addresses the high uncertainty in ECS by providing an observational estimate of λ temporal variations since 1970. Estimates are derived from the global energy balance equation, regressing the radiative response against temperature over periods longer than 25 years. Users are primarily interested in the time series of λ and its associated uncertainties. The input data for computing λ is provided in a secondary "extended product" for transparency, allowing users to rebuild the indicators. The final product, available as a NetCDF file, can be downloaded in open access and is licensed for any project or study.

  • Archive de toutes les données de température de surface (SST) satellite produites dans le cadre du projet international GHRSST. Ifremer est un GDAC pour ces données, miroir du GDAC NASA/JPL. Ces données sont utilisées pour la génération de produits multi-capteurs (CMEMS, Medspiration) mais également dans le cadre d'un grand nombre d'études ou projets nécessitant l'utilisation de mesures de SST. L'archive regroupe plusieurs jeux de données provenant de différents satellite ainsi que des données in situ de référence pour leur validation. Elle est mise à jour en temps quasi-réel depuis 10 ans, avec service de diffusion opérationnelle associé (FTP et HTTP). Une fiche sextant (issue du catalogue CERSAT) sera fournie pour chaque dataset dans cette archive.

  • 387 points were surveyed with a SP80 DGPS by Maxime Paschal as part of the La Rochelle Zero Carbon Territory (LRTZC) project on 26/05/23. At each point, the type of vegetation was specified.

  • Operational altimetry processing traditionally relies on a “frozen sea” assumption, neglecting the influence of ocean dynamics on Doppler frequencies and introducing biases in estimated sea-state parameters. This dataset is based on an advanced SAR (Delay-Doppler) processing approach that overcomes this limitation by explicitly accounting for ocean surface dynamics. The methodology incorporates enhanced SAR models that jointly retrieve the standard deviation of vertical wave orbital velocities and the along-track component of the geophysical Doppler vector. These quantities are estimated through full two-dimensional retracking of unfocused SAR Delay-Doppler maps (stacks), rather than through the conventional summed Doppler beam approach used in operational processing. The processing has been implemented within the Sentinel Processing Prototype (SPP), leading to the generation of two six-month Sentinel-6A (S6A) data series covering January–June 2022 and January–June 2024. Validation results show that the dataset is fully consistent with conventional altimetry products in terms of sea surface height (SSH) and significant wave height (SWH), while providing reduced noise levels and improved along-track resolution. Key added-value parameters and improvements include: • Vertical wave velocity statistics: The dataset characterizes azimuth smearing induced by vertical wave motion, enabling the retrieval of the standard deviation of vertical wave velocity. This parameter is directly related to the mean zero up-crossing wave period and refines the estimation of sea-state conditions. Its inclusion reduces sea-state-dependent biases in SWH and shows strong agreement with ERA5 wave model outputs without requiring external corrections. • Geophysical Doppler contribution: The along-track component of the geophysical Doppler vector is estimated, providing information linked to wind direction and intensity, as well as surface currents (including contributions such as Stokes drift). Accounting for this term significantly reduces wind-dependent SSH biases, particularly between ascending and descending passes, while preserving large-scale spectral content. This dataset constitutes a demonstration product designed for the scientific community, showcasing the potential of advanced SAR retracking techniques. It delivers enhanced-resolution altimetry measurements together with improved SSH and SWH estimates, wave-period-related diagnostics derived from vertical velocity, and geophysical Doppler information. These features open new perspectives for coastal ocean applications, surface current studies, and swell characterization.

  • A prerequisite for a successful development of a multi-mission wind dataset is to ensure good inter-calibration of the different extreme wind datasets to be integrated in the product. Since the operational hurricane community is working with the in-situ dropsondes as wind speed reference, which are in turn used to calibrate the NOAA Hurricane Hunter Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer (SFMR) wind data, MAXSS has used the latter to ensure extreme-wind inter-calibration among the following scatterometer and radiometer systems: the Advanced Scatterometers onboard the Metop series (i.e., ASCAT-A, -B, and -C), the scatterometers onboard Oceansat-2 (OSCAT) and ScatSat-1 (OSCAT-2), and onboard the HY-2 series (HSCAT-A, -B); the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2 onboard GCOM-W1(AMSR-2), the multi-frequency polarimetric radiometer (Windsat), and the L-band radiometers onboard the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) missions. In summary, a two-step strategy has been followed to adjust the high and extreme wind speeds derived from the mentioned scatterometer and radiometer systems, available in the period 2009-2020. First, the C-band ASCATs have been adjusted against collocated storm-motion centric SFMR wind data. Then, both SFMR winds and ASCAT adjusted winds have been used to adjust all the other satellite wind systems. In doing so, a good inter-calibration between all the systems is ensured not only under tropical cyclone (TC) conditions, but also elsewhere. This dataset was produced in the frame of the ESA funded Marine Atmosphere eXtreme Satellite Synergy (MAXSS) project. The primary objective of the ESA Marine Atmosphere eXtreme Satellite Synergy (MAXSS) project is to provide guidance and innovative methodologies to maximize the synergetic use of available Earth Observation data (satellite, in situ) to improve understanding about the multi-scale dynamical characteristics of extreme air-sea interaction.

  • In recent years, large datasets of in situ marine carbonate system parameters (partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2), total alkalinity, dissolved inorganic carbon and pH) have been collated. These carbonate system datasets have highly variable data density in both space and time, especially in the case of pCO2, which is routinely measured at high frequency using underway measuring systems. This variation in data density can create biases when the data are used, for example for algorithm assessment, favouring datasets or regions with high data density. A common way to overcome data density issues is to bin the data into cells of equal latitude and longitude extent. This leads to bins with spatial areas that are latitude and projection dependent (eg become smaller and more elongated as the poles are approached). Additionally, as bin boundaries are defined without reference to the spatial distribution of the data or to geographical features, data clusters may be divided sub-optimally (eg a bin covering a region with a strong gradient). To overcome these problems and to provide a tool for matching in situ data with satellite, model and climatological data, which often have very different spatiotemporal scales both from the in situ data and from each other, a methodology has been created to group in situ data into ‘regions of interest’, spatiotemporal cylinders consisting of circles on the Earth’s surface extending over a period of time. These regions of interest are optimally adjusted to contain as many in situ measurements as possible. All in situ measurements of the same parameter contained in a region of interest are collated, including estimated uncertainties and regional summary statistics. The same grouping is done for each of the other datasets, producing a dataset of matchups. About 35 million in situ datapoints were then matched with data from five satellite sources and five model and re-analysis datasets to produce a global matchup dataset of carbonate system data, consisting of 287,000 regions of interest spanning 54 years from 1957 to 2023. Each region of interest is 50 km in diameter and 5 days in duration, improving the spatial and temporal resolution of the previous version (v3.4). The list of sources added in this dataset includes: - sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration from Copernicus Climate Service Multi-satellite L4 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/62c0f97b1eac4e0197a674870afe1ee6) - sea surface salinity from the Copernicus Marine service Multi Observation Global Ocean Sea Surface Salinity and Sea Surface Density (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00051) - Surface ocean sea-air CO2 fluxes and total alkalinity from ETH Zurich OceanSODA-ETHZ-v2 gridded dataset (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11206366) - salinity and mixed layer depth from SODA v3.4.2 reanalysis (https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0149.1) - chlorophyll-A from ESA Ocean Colour CCI v6 (doi:10.3390/s19194285) - wind at 10 m and mean sea level pressure from ERA5 reanalysis - nitrate, silicate, phosphate, oxygen, temperature and salinity from World Ocean Atlas 2018 - sea level anomaly from Global Ocean Gridded L4 Sea Surface Heights And Derived Variables Multi-Year dataset by Copernicus Marine Service Information (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00148) - sea surface salinity from ESA Salinity CCI L4 v3.2.1 (https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/5920a2c77e3c45339477acd31ce62c3c) - sea surface salinity from JPL SMAP Level 3 CAP Sea Surface Salinity (https://doi.org/10.5067/SMP40-3SPCS) - temperature and salinity from Coriolis Observation Re-Analysis CORA5.2 by Copernicus Marine Service (https://doi.org/10.17882/46219) - subskin sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST SST (http://doi.org/10.5067/GHAAO-4BC01) - sea surface salinity from the Arctic salinity dataset (https://doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/9065) the Barcelona Expert Center (http://bec.icm.csic.es/) - pH and spCO2 from Copernicus Marine Service Surface Ocean Carbon Dataset (https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00047) An example application, the reparameterisation of a global total alkalinity algorithm, is shown. This matchup dataset can be updated as and when in situ and other datasets are updated, and similar datasets at finer spatiotemporal scale can be constructed, for example to enable regional studies. This dataset was funded by ESA OceanHealth / Ocean Acidification project which aims at developing the use of satellite Earth Observation for studying and monitoring marine carbonate chemistry.

  • This dataset contains all satellite altimeter wave heights above 9 m, from the following satellite missions: ERS-1, ERS-2, Topex-Poseidon (Topex only), Envisat, SARAL, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-6A, Cryosat-2, CFOSAT, SWOT. Storm event identification used the DetectHsStorm package developed by M. De Carlo and F. Ardhuin (  https://github.com/ardhuin/) . This data can be combined with modeled storm tracks (see F. Ardhuin, M. De Carlo, Storm tracks based on wave heights from LOPS WAVEWATCH III hindcast and ERA5 reanalysis, years 1991-2024, SEANOE (2025). doi: 10.17882/105148 )

  • This dataset contains the high-frequency total horizontal current at 15m depth on a global grid at 1/4° resolution. It is composed by the addition of two components, the first is the Geostrophic current derived by Altimetry, from the DT-2018 CMEMS database, and the second is the unsteady-Ekman ageostrophic component forced by the wind. All the details about the algorithm and the physical content of this ageostrophy component are given in the ATBD. The data are available through HTTP and FTP; access to the data is free and open. This dataset was generated by Datlas Ocean and is distributed by Ifremer / CERSAT in the frame of the World Ocean Circulation (WOC) project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA).