cff-version: 1.2.0
abstract: "<p>This dataset contains the research data underlying the publication "Polygon-Informed Cross-Track Altimetry (PICTA): Estimating river water level profiles with the Sentinel-6 altimeter". The preprint of this publication is available at SSRN: <a href="https://dx-doi-org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2139/ssrn.4851452" target="_blank">http://dx.doi.org.tudelft.idm.oclc.org/10.2139/ssrn.4851452 </a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Contents</strong></p><p>The dataset contains altimetry data of the Sentinel-6 mission over small parts of the Garonne and Creuse rivers in France in two processing stages:</p><ol><li>the FFSAR-processed altimetry signal, derived from EUMETSAT Level-1a altimetry data (<a href="http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SEC_CLM_0093" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SEC_CLM_0093</a>) via the processor described in Ehlers et al. 2022 (http://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2022.11.034). The data in the form of netcdf files is contained in the zip-archives</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Garonne_FFSAR_altimetry_data.zip</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Creuse_FFSAR_altimetry_data.zip</li><li>the PICTA-processed river water level profiles, derived from the FFSAR-processed altimetry data and the geophysical corrections contained in EUMETSAT Level-2 altimetry data (http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SEC_CLM_0096), see source publication for details. The data in the form of netcdf files is contained in the zip-archives</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Garonne_river_profile_data.zip</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Creuse_river_profile_data.zip</li></ol><p><br></p><p>For both processing levels, the archives contain netCDF files with the data of single satellite overpasses (as in the original EUMETSAT datasets). For convenience, both the FFSAR-processed and the PICTA-derived data that belong to a specific overpass carry the original file identifier of the underlying Level-1a altimetry data (<a href="http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SEC_CLM_0093" target="_blank">http://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SEC_CLM_0093</a>) plus the extension "_TUDelft".</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>"
authors:
  - family-names: Ehlers
    given-names: Frithjof
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0846-7644"
  - family-names: Slobbe
    given-names: Cornelis
  - family-names: Schlembach
    given-names: Florian
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6872-3668"
  - family-names: Kleinherenbrink
    given-names: Marcel
  - family-names: Verlaan
    given-names: Martin
title: "Research data underlying &#34;Polygon-Informed Cross-Track Altimetry (PICTA): Estimating river water level profiles with the Sentinel-6 altimeter&#34;"
keywords:
version: 1
identifiers:
  - type: doi
    value: 10.4121/304db898-f99c-490a-97c4-13f919ae3c05.v1
license: CC BY 4.0
date-released: 2024-08-02