ESA Cryosat Level-2 Product

Abstract:
ESA Cryosat Fast Delivery Marine Mode (FDM) product for the benefit of meteorology and oceanography is produced from Low Rate Mode (LRM) data only and is run as soon as possibly after acquisition using the DORIS Navigator orbit. The frequency of FDM data records is approximately one per second. The FDM Measurement Dataset has a single format as it is only ever produced from SIRAL LRM data. Product parameters are grouped according to function into 5 logical sub-structures as follows: -Location Group time and orbit location; -Range Group range and retracker results; -Range Corrections Group derived from auxiliary data or models; -SWH and Backscatter Group parameters relating to SWH and sigma0; -Geophysical Group MSS, Geoid, Tides etc from external data. More details on the web page: https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/cryosat/ipf-baseline

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Metadata Information

General

General information section
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contactsee section contact (role: pointOfContact)
dateStamp 2015-06-04T14:19:45Z
metadataStandardNameWMO Core Metadata Profile of ISO 19115 (WMO Core), 2003/Cor.1:2006 (ISO 19115), 2007 (ISO/TS 19139)
metadataStandardVersion1.3
referenceSystemInfoWGS 84
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(http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wis/2012/metadata/version_1-3/)

identificationInfo

Identification information section
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citation
  • title:
    • ESA Cryosat Level-2 Product
  • dates:
    • revision: 2014-03-17Z
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    • The dot notation recommended by WMO-CBS IPET-MDRD is used to build the code identifier
abstract see above
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pointOfContactsee section contact (role: originator)
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    • sea-level
    • wave
    • ice
    • remote sensing
    • cryosphere
    • oceanography
    • meteorology
    • level-2 product
    • radar altimeter
    • Cryosat
    • ESA
    • meteorological
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Contact

Role: pointOfContact

Contact information section
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Role: distributor

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  • address:


  • phone:
  • email:
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Role: originator

Originator information section
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organisationNameEuropean Space Research INstitute
contactInfo
  • phone:
    • +39 06 941 80426
  • facsimile:
    • +39 06 941 80512
  • address:
    • Via Galileo Galilei, Casella Postale 64
      00044Frascati
      Italy
  • email:
  • onlineResource:

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  • specification:
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dataQualityInfo

Data Quality information section
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scopedataset
report
  • title:
    • COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
  • date (publication):
    • 2010-12-08
  • explanation:
    • See the referenced specification
  • pass:
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  • statement:
    • High data quality controlled according to the procedures of the WIS
  • processStep:
    • This metadata record was generated by DW.