Albert Garcia-Mondejar

TL;DR: In 2018, the 25th year of development of radar altimetry was celebrated and the progress achieved by this methodology in the fields of global and coastal oceanography, hydrology, geodesy and cryospheric sciences as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the interferometric mode of CryoSat-2 was used to map broad (5 km wide) swaths of surface elevation with fine (500 m) spatial resolution from each satellite pass, providing a step-change in the capability of satellite altimetry for glaciology.

TL;DR: This paper is the first refereed publication to bring together the analysis of SAR altimetry across all these different domains to highlight the benefits and existing challenges of the Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the method to estimate the range, datation and angle-of-arrival errors from the transponder data and apply it to six years of Baseline C data to derive potential biases and drifts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the CryoSat data quality assessment and evolutions, covering all quality control and calibration activities performed by ESA and its partners, and discuss the forthcoming evolutions of the processing chains and improvements anticipated in the next processing Baseline.