World Ocean Circulation Experiment Global Data V3.0 Satellite Sea Level

Brief description

The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) was a part of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) which used resources from nearly 30 countries to make unprecedented in-situ and satellite observations of the global ocean between 1990 and 1998 and to observe poorly-understood but important physical processes. This dataset provides gridded sea level from the Topex Poseidon (T/P) satellite mission. The values at each bin represent the difference between the average sea level measured in that space-time bin, and the 9-year average (1993-2001) of the measurements in that spatial bin. Two types of grids are included, 1) 0.5-degree, 10-day binned and 2) 1.0-degree, 5-day interpolated. In both cases, the data cover all latitudes between 66 North and South, and the times are from October 1992 to December 2001.