CCI Sea Level

The main objective of the sea level CCI project is to produce and validate a Sea Level Essential Climate Variable (ECV) product. It represents the first phase of the ESA Climate Change Initiative program that aims at setting up in a second phase an "operational processing capacity of Earth Observation data"

ESA Climate Change Initiative

Climate change is arguably the greatest challenge facing mankind in the twenty-first century. Its importance has been recognised in recent reports from the IPCC and from UNFCCC, and the overwhelming economic consequences are set out in the Stern Report. Read more »

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Sea Level CCI at the EGU 2015

The Sea Level CCI team is pleased to announce its participation at the next EGU from 12-17 April 2015. The following abstracts have been submitted to EGU sessions: Read more »

New Sea Level ECV animation

Discover the new animation of the Sea Level ECV here. This includes the extension to the period covering 2011-2013.

Sea Level CCI Paper accepted for publication

The paper titled 'Improved sea level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993-2010) from the Climate Change Initiative Project' has been accepted for publication. This paper presenting the Sea Level CCI project can be found here.

New Sea Level v1.1 ECV product now available

The Sea Level CCI team is pleased to announce the release of the temporal extension of the Sea Level v1.1 ECV product. The monthly maps of sea level anomalies are now available over the 1993-2013 period. The ECV product also includes ocean indicators over the same period:

  • the temporal evolution of the global mean sea level
  • the map of the sea level trends
  • the map of the amplitude and phase of the annual signal of the sea level.
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Sea Level CCI newsletter (Edition #6) is now available

The sixth Sea Level CCI newsletter is now available for download. The main highlight in this new issue is the description of our new ECV product.

Contents of this edition:

  • The Sea Level ECV is now available over 1993-2013 period!
  • Temporal extension of the Sea Level ECV: a 1993-2013 climate record
  • The Sea Level estimation in the Arctic Ocean
  • 2014 Publications
  • The Sea Level CCI promotion - Events

This Edition of the Newsletter (PDF) can be found here: Newsletter #6 Read more »

Updated publications list available.

The SLCCI team are continuing to be very active in their first year of this 2nd Phase of the CCI programme. One way to keep up to date with this is via the team's publications area on this website - the latest list can be found in here.

Along-track altimeter measurements - available to users

The Sea Level ECV products consist of monthly maps of sea level anomalies and associated mean sea level trends.

As part of the project's scientific activities, the Sea Level CCI project team have been able to provide the Climate Research Group with along-track altimeter measurements from several altimeter missions (TOPEX-Poseidon, ERS-1 & 2, Envisat, Jason-1 & 2) to assess the quality of the Sea Level ECV products using assimilation techniques. Read more »

Sea Level CCI newsletter (Edition #5) is now available

Our fifth newsletter is now available for download. In this new version we take a look back at some of the successes and highlights of our first 3 years (Phase 1) and go on to present our plans for the next 3 years (Phase 2). 

Contents of this issue:

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