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A database of "very high" and "phenomenal" sea states from the ESA Seastate CCI V4 database, with complements from CNES CFOSAT and SWOT nadir altimeters. Version 1 (not inter-calibrated)

This dataset contains all satellite altimeter wave heights above 9 m, from the following satellite missions: ERS-1, ERS-2, Topex-Poseidon (Topex only), Envisat, SARAL, Jason-1, Jason-2, Jason-3, Sentinel-3A, Sentinel-3B, Sentinel-6A, Cryosat-2, CFOSAT, SWOT. Storm event identification used the DetectHsStorm package developed by M. De Carlo and F. Ardhuin (  https://github.com/ardhuin/) . This data can be combined with modeled storm tracks (see F. Ardhuin, M. De Carlo, Storm tracks based on wave heights from LOPS WAVEWATCH III hindcast and ERA5 reanalysis, years 1991-2024, SEANOE (2025). doi: 10.17882/105148 )

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Date (Publication)
2025-03-12
Date (Revision)
2025-06-04
Other citation details
Ardhuin Fabrice (2025). A database of "very high" and "phenomenal" sea states from the ESA Seastate CCI V4 database, with complements from CNES CFOSAT and SWOT nadir altimeters. Version 1 (not inter-calibrated). SEANOE. https://doi.org/10.17882/105378
Credit
This work was funded by ESA Seastate CCI project.
Author
  Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, IUEM, Brest, 29200, France - ARDHUIN Fabrice
Publisher
  SEANOE
Theme
  • storms
  • altimetry
  • wave heights
  • Physical oceanography
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
  • Waves
SeaDataNet Parameter Disciplines
  • Physical oceanography
Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
  • /Observational data/satellite
Use limitation
CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution)
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Values will be updated when the inter-calibration becomes available.
Date (Publication)
2021
Publisher
  Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Author
  Tourain Cedric
Author
  Piras Fanny
Author
  Ollivier Annabelle
Author
  Hauser Daniele
Author
  Poisson J. C.
Author
  Boy F.
Author
  Thibaut P.
Author
  Hermozo L.
Author
  Tison C.
Unique resource identifier
10.1109/TGRS.2021.3064236
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
Study
Date (Publication)
2025
Publisher
  SEANOE
Author
  Ardhuin Fabrice
Author
  Postec Taina
Unique resource identifier
10.17882/105447
Association Type
Cross reference
Initiative Type
dataset
Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Begin date
1991-01-01
End date
2024-12-31
Distribution format
  • TAR.GZ ARCHIVE ( )

  • CSV ( )

OnLine resource
Processed data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

This archive contains data from CCI Seastate L2P product (version 4) and the Geophysical Data Records (GDR) for CFOSAT and SWOT. - 162 MB

OnLine resource
Processed data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

Maximum wave heights for storms detected by satellite altimeters - 4 MB

OnLine resource
Processed data ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-link--download )

summary table of the the largest modeled wave heights and associated satellite alt. measurements - 215 KB

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DOI of the product ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--metadata-URL )
OnLine resource
Seanoe ( rel-canonical )
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Dataset
Statement

These data are from NASA, CNES, Eumetsat and ESA. See https://climate.esa.int/media/documents/Sea_State_cci_PUG_v3.1-signed.pdf for details, except for CFOSAT and SWOT (these are GDR data from CNES):

https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/missions/current-missions/swot/instruments/poseidon-3c.html

and Tourain et al.  (2021) https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2021.3064236.

File identifier
seanoe:105378 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-06-04
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  Laboratoire d’Océanographie Physique et Spatiale (LOPS), Univ. Brest, CNRS, IRD, Ifremer, IUEM, Brest, 29200, France - ARDHUIN Fabrice
 
 

Overviews

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Measurements of wave height an location for events number 790 and 791 in the SWOT dataset. Event 790 corresponds to storm "Eddie". It appears to be the largest ever measured significant wave heightr (Hs=19.5 +/- 0.3 m) by any satellite altimeter

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Keywords

Physical oceanography altimetry storms wave heights
ODATIS aggregation parameters and Essential Variable names
Waves
Type de jeux de donnée ODATIS
/Observational data/satellite

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