Look-Up Tables for SWH RMS test

Look-Up Tables for SWH RMS test#

This section describes in further details the methodology used to build the SWH RMS Look-Up Tables (LUT) used to filter out bad 1 Hz measurements.

Selected cycles#

The calculation of a SWH RMS LUT is applied to each altimeter mission on 8 cycles. The number of cycles is a trade-off between CPU time and statistical robustness of the proposed diagnostics.

The selected cycles correspond to periods of nominal orbit and nominal functioning of the altimeter:

Mission

Cycles

ERS-1

154-92-84-146-148-149-151-98

ERS-2

50-82-43-63-45-76-46-36

TOPEX-A1

108-112-122-16-22-25-67-73

TOPEX-A2

134-143-148-158-198-208-218-221

TOPEX-B

246-254-306-328-364-428-444-453

JASON-1E

184-79-191-339-96-510-512-253

JASON-2D

206-319-179-286-146-3-48-195

JASON-3D

74-74-11-46-88-14-26-63

JASON-3F

319-325-194-196-348-349-356-357

ENVISAT-V3

105-54-77-84-87-89-96-9

SARAL

105-21-13-22-100-112-6-103

SENTINEL-3A

10-27-34-37-49-59-62-65

SENTINEL-3B

11-21-25-27-31-47-48-51

SENTINEL-6A

11-12-17-21-25-27-31-47

Methodology#

Resulting LUTs#

Below, the average LUT estimated for each mission :

LUT_average_ERS-1-REAPER.png LUT_average_ERS-2-REAPER.png LUT_average_TOPEXF_TOPEX_A1.png LUT_average_TOPEXF_TOPEX_A2.png LUT_average_TOPEXF_TOPEX_B.png LUT_average_JASON-1E.png LUT_average_JASON-2D.png LUT_average_JASON-3D.png LUT_average_JASON-3F.png LUT_average_ENVISAT-V3.png LUT_average_SARALF.png LUT_average_SENTINEL-3A.png LUT_average_SENTINEL-3B.png LUT_average_SENTINEL-6A_f08.png