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At the German Processing and Archiving Facility (D-PAF) an off-line altimeter data processing system has been developed with the capability to handle different satellite missions. For combining data from different missions an algorithm has been implemented that processes a reference sea surface from altimeter data of one mission while other mission data is taken to improve the spatial resolution of this reference model. In this way a stationary sea surface (MSS93A) was computed by compiling upgraded ERS-1 fast delivery data of the first year of the 35 day repeat cycle together with Geosat T2 GDRs of 1987.
MSS93A was validated by means of comparisons to external models, gradient method and visualization techniques.
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Anzenhofer, M., Gruber, T. MSS93A: A new stationary sea surface combining one year upgraded ERS-1 fast delivery data and 1987 GEOSAT altimeter data. Bulletin Géodésique 69, 157–163 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00815484
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