Sentinel-6A MF Jason-CS L1B P4 Altimeter High Resolution (HR) STC Geolocated Waveforms

(JASON_CS_S6A_L1B_ALT_HR_STC_F)

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Version	F
Processing Level	1B
Start/Stop Date	2020-Dec-07 to Present
Short Name	JASON_CS_S6A_L1B_ALT_HR_STC_F
Description	Provides L1B high resolution (HR) short time critical (STC; 36-hour latency) altimetry data from the Poseidon-4 SAR altimeter on the Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich spacecraft which include the geolocated, fully SAR processed and calibrated multi-looked HR Ku-band waveforms. The S6A STC product is analogous to the Jason-3 IGDR product.
DOI	10.5067/S6AP4-1BHST
Measurement	OCEANS > SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY > SEA SURFACE HEIGHT OCEANS > OCEAN WAVES > SIGNIFICANT WAVE HEIGHT
Swath Width	11 km
Platform/Sensor	Sentinel-6A Platform Name: Sentinel-6A (Sentinel-6A) / Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter SENSOR Name: Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter (Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter)
Project	Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich/Jason-CS (Sentinel-6)
Data Provider	Publisher: PO.DAAC Creator: Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Release Place: PO.DAAC Release Date: 2021-Jun-22
Format	netCDF-4
Keyword(s)	SSHA, Jason-CS, S6A, SSH, Sea Surface Height Anomalies, geolocated, Sentinel-6, SLA, Sentinel-6A, Wave Height, Jason, Sentinel-6A Michael Freilich, waveforms

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Resolution Temporal Resolution: Weekly - < Monthly Coverage Region: GLOBAL OCEAN Region: GLOBAL North Bounding Coordinate: 66.15 degrees South Bounding Coordinate: -66.15 degrees West Bounding Coordinate: -180 degrees East Bounding Coordinate: 180 degrees Time Span: 2020-Dec-07 to Present Swath Width: 11 km

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Name	Long Name	Unit
/data_20/ku/altimeter_clock	altimeter clock	Hz
/data_20/ku/altimeter_power_drift	Power drift due to orbital and aging variations (from CAL1)	dB
/data_20/ku/altitude	center of mass altitude above the reference ellipsoid	m
/data_20/ku/altitude_rate	center of mass altitude rate with respect to the reference ellipsoid	m/s
/data_20/ku/attenuation_calibrated	power scaling: ATT calibrated (from ATT table)	dB
/data_20/ku/cal1_power	instrument impulse response maximum or integrated power	dB
/data_20/ku/doppler_angle_start	Doppler angle of the first look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/doppler_angle_stop	Doppler angle of the last look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/gaussian_fitting_center_look	Gaussian power fitting: center wrt look angle	rad
/data_20/ku/gaussian_fitting_center_pointing	Gaussian power fitting: center wrt pointing angle	rad
/data_20/ku/gaussian_fitting_kurtosis	Gaussian power fitting: kurtosis	1
/data_20/ku/gaussian_fitting_skewness	Gaussian power fitting: skewness	1
/data_20/ku/gaussian_fitting_std	Gaussian power fitting: standard deviation wrt look angle	rad
/data_20/ku/hn_mean	mean altitude instruction, for monitoring purposes	T0/16/64
/data_20/ku/hr_mcd_flags	measurement confidence data (MCD): collection of error flags for the HR processor (Ku-band)
/data_20/ku/l1b_record_counter	Level 1B record counter	1
/data_20/ku/latitude	latitude	degrees_north
/data_20/ku/longitude	longitude	degrees_east
/data_20/ku/look_angle_start	look angle of the first look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/look_angle_stop	look angle of the last look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/manoeuvre_flag	flag indicating whether the satellite is in a manoeuvre
/data_20/ku/mcd_flags	measurement confidence data (MCD): collection of error flags (Ku-band)
/data_20/ku/num_looks_multilooking	number of looks in the stack used in the multi-looking to generate the L1B waveform	1
/data_20/ku/num_looks_start_stop	number of looks in the stack between the start and stop angles	1
/data_20/ku/off_nadir_pitch_angle_pf	off-nadir pitch angle measured by the platform	degrees
/data_20/ku/off_nadir_roll_angle_pf	off-nadir roll angle measured by the platform	degrees
/data_20/ku/off_nadir_yaw_angle_pf	off-nadir yaw angle measured by the platform	degrees
/data_20/ku/orbit_type_flag	orbit type used
/data_20/ku/p4_instrument_configuration_flags	collection of flags from the P4 instrument source packets
/data_20/ku/p4_mode_flag	mode identifier from the P4 instrument source packets
/data_20/ku/pnr_estimation	peak to noise ratio estimation on the L1A burst	dB
/data_20/ku/pointing_angle_start	pointing angle of the first look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/pointing_angle_stop	pointing angle of the last look, after stack-masking	rad
/data_20/ku/power_scaling_to_antenna	power scaling: overall instrument gain	dB
/data_20/ku/power_waveform	HR oversampled power waveform: scaled 0-65534	1
/data_20/ku/ptr_main_lobe_width	PTR main lobe width	s
/data_20/ku/pulse_repetition_interval	Pulse Repetition Interval converted into seconds	s
/data_20/ku/range_cor_com	range correction: 1-way distance CoM-antenna	m
/data_20/ku/range_cor_doppler	range correction: 1-way Doppler compensation	m
/data_20/ku/range_cor_internal_delay_att	range correction: 1-way range compensation for the delay introduced by the attenuator	m
/data_20/ku/range_cor_internal_delay_cal	range correction: 1-way internal calibration path delay (from CAL1)	m
/data_20/ku/range_cor_reference_sample	range correction: 1-way compensation to shift the tracker range to the reference sample	m
/data_20/ku/range_cor_uso	range correction: 1-way USO drift	m
/data_20/ku/sig0_scaling_factor	power scaling: scaling factor for sigma-0 evaluation (from antenna flange)	dB
/data_20/ku/snr_instr_estimation	instrument estimated SNR from telemetry	dB
/data_20/ku/stack_mask_start_stop	zero-mask between the start and stop looks within the stack	1
/data_20/ku/surface_classification_flag	flag indicating the surface type
/data_20/ku/telemetry_type_flag	telemetry type (LRM, RAW, RMC)
/data_20/ku/time	time in UTC	seconds since 2000-01-01 00:00:00
/data_20/ku/time_tai	time in TAI	seconds since 2000-01-01 00:00:00
/data_20/ku/tm_cor2	COR2 telemetry (same in 1 radar cycle)	T0/16/64
/data_20/ku/tm_h0	h0 telemetry (same in 1 rada cycle)	T0/64
/data_20/ku/tm_source_sequence_counter	instrument source sequence counter	1
/data_20/ku/tracker_range_calibrated	calibrated 1-way tracker range: CoM to middle range window (at sample ns/2 from 0)	m
/data_20/ku/tracker_range_calibrated_diode	calibrated 1-way tracker range given by DIODE+DEM: CoM to middle range window (at sample ns/2 from 0)	m
/data_20/ku/variable_digital_gain	power scaling: variable digital gain	dB
/data_20/ku/velocity_vector	center of mass velocity vector in ITRF, components: [1] x, [2] y, [3] z	m/s
/global/ku/antenna_gain	maximum antenna gain	dB
/global/ku/burst_phase_array_cor	burst phase correction	rad
/global/ku/burst_power_array_cor	burst power correction	dB
/global/ku/cal2_correction	normalized CAL2 for the waveforms correction	1
/global/ku/g_scaling	ratio of losses between the RA transmission/reception path and the calibration path	dB
/global/ku/hr_processing_configuration_flags	collection of parameters for the HR chain from the processor configuration file
/global/ku/processing_configuration_flags	collection of parameters from the processor configuration file
/global/ku/range_cor_external_group_delay	range correction: 1-way external group delay from ground characterization (Ku-band)	m
/global/ku/range_oversampling_factor	oversampling factor used in the range compression (FFT)	1
/global/ku/residual_fixed_digital_gain_raw	power scaling: residual on-board fixed digital processing gain for RAW	dB
/global/ku/residual_fixed_digital_gain_rmc	power scaling: residual on-board fixed digital processing gain for RMC	dB
looks	index of looks within a stack	1
pulses	index of pulses within a burst	1
samples	waveform sample number	1
samples_ov	waveform sample number (with oversampling)	1
space_3d	index of carteesian coordinates	1

DATA CITATION GUIDELINES
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GENERAL DOCUMENTATION
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/sentinel-6/ The mission page for Sentinel-6A MF on the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) website.
https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/jasoncs/ The mission page for Sentinel-6A MF on the NASA Ocean Surface Topography (OST) website.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-6 The mission page for Sentinel-6A MF on the European Space Agency (ESA) website.
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Sentinel-6 The mission page for Sentinel-6A MF on the PO.DAAC website.
https://www.eumetsat.int/sentinel-6 The mission page for Sentinel-6A MF on the EUMETSAT website.
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/forum/viewforum.php?f=97 PO.DAAC Forum Page for Sentinel-6A MF
DATA RECIPE
https://github.com/podaac/sentinel6 Jupyter notebooks to access and manipulate data from Sentinel-6A MF.
https://github.com/podaac/data-readers Generic Data Readers
USER'S GUIDE
https://www.eumetsat.int/altimetry-resources Documentation hosted by EUMETSAT including the Generic File Naming Convention, and the Level 1 and Level 2 Product Format Specifications.

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Ocean Surface Topography Science Team. 2021. Sentinel-6A MF Jason-CS L1B P4 Altimeter High Resolution (HR) STC Geolocated Waveforms. Ver. F. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/S6AP4-1BHST

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Journal Reference

Donlon, C. J, R. Cullen, L. Giulicchi, P. Vuilleumier, C. R. Francis, M. Kuschnerus, W. Simpson, A. Bouridah, M. Caleno, R. Bertoni, J. Rancaño, E. Pourier, A. Hyslop, J. Mulcahy, R. Knockaert, C. Hunter, A. Webb, M. Fornari, P. Vaze, S. Brown, J. Willis, S. Desai, J-D Desjonqueres, R. Scharroo, C. Martin-Puig, E. Leuliette, A. Egido, W. H. F. Smith, P. B., S. Le Gac, N. Picot, and G. Tavernier. 2021. The Copernicus Sentinel-6 mission: Enhanced continuity of satellite sea level measurements from space, Remote Sensing of Environment, 258. 10.1016/j.rse.2021.112395

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