Different sources of error

The altimeter measurement is affected by different errors as illustrated by the following figure and discussed in Escudier et al. (2017):

Along-track measurements (Level 3) – main sources of errors

  • Main sources of errors
    • Instrumental errors
    • Environmental & sea state errors
    • Geophysical errors
  • Altimeter measurement noises and altimeter along-track observability
  • DT vs NRT DUACS products

Merged product (Level 4) – main sources of errors

  • The main sources of errors
  • Quality of the global gridded products
  • Quality of the regional gridded products
  • DT vs NRT DUACS products