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1 Recent Activities of the OST-VC
Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT) Annick Sylvestre-Baron (CNES) CEOS 2019 SIT Technical Workshop Session 5, Item 5.3 Fairbanks, Alaska, USA 11 – 12 September 2019

2 Altimetry, OST-VC and CEOS (1)
OST-VC links the agencies, altimetry user community, and CEOS Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Inter-agency cooperation on current missions CFOSAT: CNSA, CNES, EUMETSAT (NRT distribution) Jason-2/3: NASA, CNES, EUMETSAT, NOAA SARAL: ISRO, CNES, EUMETSAT (NRT distribution) Hy-2A: CNSA, CNES Sentinel-3: EU, EUMETSAT (ocean), ESA (land) Other current missions CryoSat-2: ESA

3 Altimetry, OST-VC and CEOS (2)
Inter-agency cooperation on future missions CRISTAL: EU, EUMETSAT (ocean), ESA (land) Hy-2B/C/D: CNSA, CNES Sentinel-3 Next Generation: EU, EUMETSAT (ocean), ESA (land) Sentinel-6: EUMETSAT, ESA, EU, NASA, NOAA, CNES SWOT: NASA, CNES, CSA, UKSA WISA: ESA, CNES Other future missions COMPIRA: JAXA OST-VC suited to discuss constellation-wide programmatic issues From virtual to actual coordinated constellation Update of Constellation URD OST-VC representative in COVERAGE initiative

4 OST-VC Members After 2+ years without a co-chair from CNES, the OST-VC now has again two chairs: Annick Sylvestre-Baron (CNES) Remko Scharroo (EUMETSAT) Other members Craig Donlon (ESA) Eric Leuliette (NOAA) Eric Lindstrom (NASA) (soon to retire) Gregg Jacobs (US Navy) Kai Matsui (JAXA) Rashmi Sharma (ISRO) Wang Chen (CNSA)

5 Team Activities and Outputs
OST-VC contribution to the OceanObs’19 White Paper: Requirements for a coastal zone observing system, Front. Mar. Sci., 6, 348, doi: /fmars , 2019. OST-VC User Requirements Document (action VC-43, due Q4 2020) Planned side meeting of OST-VC at 2019 Ocean Surface Topography Team (OSTST) Meeting in Chicago, October 2019

6 Current constellation URD
“Next 15 years of altimetry”, 2009: Constellation User Requirement Assmanhausen OST-VC meeting Reference mission + complementing missions Nadir altimetry only (swath altimetry mentioned) Structured the current constellation (reference mission Jason + SARAL/Sentinel-3/Hy- 2A/Cryosat) Standards of products temporal scale spatial scale

7 Update of constellation URD
Objective 2018–2020: prepare a new URD Discussed in OST-VC meetings 2016 and 2017 (and 2019) Early works through CNES phase 0 study (mix nadir/swath, global UR analysis) Coordination CNES-ESA Swath Altimeter for Operational Oceanography (SAOO) URD What should be in it? Analysis of user needs: systematic + exploratory Swath altimetry + nadir altimetry: combined Recommendation for an “operational constellation” (targets: Copernicus Next Generation, Chinese and Japanese altimetry programmes) Recommendation for additional science missions and techniques (e.g. GNSS-R) in complement Multiple applications: mesoscale monitoring, polar oceans, long-term record for sea level rise Links with other observables (e.g. SST, OC)

8 Example SAOO URD 50 km / 5 days as effective resolution
Precision/accuracy requirement aimed at meeting this resolution everywhere- every time with an 80% probability Identify auxiliary information needed (tides, gravity field…) Identify what is not considered in requirement (internal wave, sub- mesoscale)

9 OST-VC constellation updates (1)
Sentinel-3 Sentinel-3B started mission in tandem with Sentinel-3A Unique opportunity to cross-calibrate altimetry, ocean colour and SST instruments on both platforms Now interleaved with Sentinel-3A ground-track since end of 2018 for optimal space-time coverage Both satellites provide excellent quality science data CFOSAT Launched 29 October 2018 Not directly for ocean topography, but winds and waves Provides good quality science data since May; to be released to public next year

10 OST-VC constellation updates (2)
Jason-2 First moved to “geodetic orbit” (~400 day repeat) in 2017 Interleaved with previous ground track since 18 July 2018 Ground track “moved backwards” 90 days after long outage as to complete coverage Reprocessing To secure and improve the climate quality sea level time series various reprocessing efforts are on-going Sentinel-3: yearly TOPEX/Poseidon: to be available soon Jason-1/2/3: planned for next year

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