2fd2a8da-10c5-4020-afe0-c97ecbc43a41 2025-11-01T13:03:25.360854Z ISO 19115-3:2018 - Remote Sensing 1.0 Experimental Product: Sentinel-6 Level-2P Skewness 2025-05-15 publication 1.0 The Sentinel-6 Level-2P skewness products was developed to estimate the skewness from Sentinel-6 LR (Low Resolution Mode) and HR (High Resolution Mode) acquisitions. That demonstration product is generated by different retracking processes, provides an initial estimation of such a phenomenon and allows a finer description of the sea state. CDS-AVISO CDS-AVISO distributor CNES funder AVISO Helpdesk aviso@altimetry.fr pointOfContact CNES/CLS originator https://sextant.ifremer.fr/geonetwork/AVISO/api/records/2fd2a8da-10c5-4020-afe0-c97ecbc43a41/attachments/S6_L2P_Skewness.png Averaged skewness pattern from ascending tracks. Credits: L. Rodet et al., 2023 CDS-AVISO Centre de données ODATIS 2024-10-16 publication 2024-10-16 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.odatis_centre_donnees Variables ODATIS 2025-05-14 lastUpdate geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.odatis_variables /Observational data/satellite Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS 2024-10-15 publication 2024-10-15 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee Level 4 Processing level 2024-07-26 publication 2024-07-26 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.processing-level.myocean.processing-level Wind Waves ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names 2025-07-29 publication 2025-07-29 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.NVS.OD1 /Ocean Waves /Ocean Winds/Surface Winds Cersat - GCMD parameter 2024-01-04 publication 2024-01-04 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.GCMDparameter "The Sentinel-6 L2P skewness demonstration product was produced by CNES and CLS and distributed (restricted access only) by AVISO". CNES, & CLS. (2025). Sentinel-6 Level-2P skewness products (Version 1.0) [Data set]. CNES. https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/A01-2024.012. Sentinel-6 L2P skewness products (DOI: 10.24400/527896/a01-2024.012) are available via authenticated servers on demand only. Please contact aviso(at)altimetry.fr if you are interested. grid 7 utf8 oceans -180.00 180.00 -80.00 90.00 2021-10-30 2022-09-02 L2P NetCDF https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/fileadmin/documents/data/tools/hdbk_S6_L2P_skewness.pdf WWW:LINK User guide Product User Manual (handbook) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2017.11.039 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL Main publication link C. Buchhaupt et al., “A Fast Convolution Based Waveform Model for Conventional and Unfocused SAR Altimetry”, Advances in Space Research 62, n°6 (2018): 1445–1463 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2023.07.030 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL Main publication link S. Dinardo et al., “Sentinel-6 MF Poseidon-4 Radar Altimeter: Main Scientific Results from S6PP LRM and UF-SAR Chains in the First Year of the Mission”, Advances in Space Research 73, n°1 (2024): 337–375 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2020.07.015 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL Main publication link C. Buchhaupt et al., “Impact of Vertical Water Particle Motions on Focused SAR Altimetry”, Advances in Space Research 68, n°2 (2020): 853-874 https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/a03-2023.3806 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--publication-URL Main publication link L. Rodet et al., “New processing capabilities in the SPP chain for improving the Sentinel-3 and Sentinel-6 altimetric parameter estimates”, Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting (2023) https://doi.org/10.24400/527896/A01-2024.012 DOI Digital Object Identifier (DOI)