DUACS MY system impacting version changes

Table : Overview of the main evolutions implemented in the DT processing. (DT-2018 and DT-2021 version is no longer available).

Date of changeSystem versionProduct versionDescription of the change
Apr-186DT-2018Full Reprocessing for REP products (1993-2017) for CMEMS v4.0:
DUACS DT-2018 version
Jun-186.1DT-2018Production of the -May ,2017-January ,2018 period
Introduction of Jason-2 Long Repeat Orbit Phase
Six satellites are used during this update in the DT processing chain (ALG, C2, H2G, J2G, J3, S3A)
Oct-186.1DT-2018Production of the January 18,2018 – June 10, 2018 period.
Five satellites are used during this update in the DT processing chain (ALG, C2, H2G, J3, S3A)
Apr-196.2DT-2018Production of the June 11,2018 – September 23, 2018 period
–          Introduction of the Europe L3 products – Remove Med. and Black Sea L3 products.
–          L3 products vfex and vxxc are included in new phy_l3 product
–          E1G is introduced as a new dataset. Before it was integrated in the E1 mission.
–          AL and ALG begin and end dates of the temporal period processed by REP/DT system has been modified.
–          Use of new Sentinel-3A Hybrid Mean Profile for global and regional product. Global data have been reprocessed.
–          All NetCDF produced are in NetCDF-4 format
Jul-196.3DT-2018Production of the September 24, 2018 – December, 2018 period.
Introduction of Sentinel-3B
Dec-196.3DT-2018Redelivery of the September 24, 2018 – January 12, 2019 production for correction of an anomaly of data availability near the coast
Production of the January 12, 2019 – May 13, 2019 period
Jul-206.3DT-2018Production of the May 14, 2019 – October 15, 2019 period
Add monthly mean dataset
Dec-206.3DT-2018Production of the October 16, 2019 – March 07, 2020 period
Extension of the monthly mean dataset October 2019 to February 2020
May-216.4DT-2018H2AG mission is deactivated from DUACS
Production of the March 08, 2020 – June 03, 2020 period
Extension of the monthly mean dataset, March 2020 to May 2020
Dec-217DT-2021Full reprocessing taking into account
–          New altimeter standards and geophysical corrections
–          New MSS and MP
–          New mapping parameters
–          Improved LWE correction
–          NetCDF format change / product/dataset nomenclature change
Jun-227DT-2021Temporal extension covering the period 2021/08/03 – 2021/12/31
Jul-227DT-2021Temporal extension covering the period 2022/01/01 – 2022/02/09
Dec-227.1DT-2021Temporal extension covering the period 2022/02/10 – 2022/06/23
Sentinel-6A introduced as new reference mission (LR measurements).
Jason-3 orbit change; addition of new “j3n” dataset.
Mar-227.1DT-2021Temporal extension covering the period 2022/06/24 – 2022/08/04
Nov-237.1DT-2021Temporal extension covering the period 2022/08/05 – 2023/06/07
May-247.2DT-2021 interimTemporal extension covering the period 2023/06/08 – 2023/09/08
Dec-248DT-2024Full reprocessing taking into account
–          New altimeter standards and geophysical corrections
–          New MSS and MP
–          New MDT
–          New mapping method (SLA & LWE computation)
–          Change of the geostrophic current computation method
–          Change of the L4 product spatial resolution
–          NetCDF format change / product/dataset nomenclature change

More details on the dedicated pages by clicking on the date in the table.