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 »

The fourth Sea Level CCI newsletter is now available

The fourth newsletter summarises the major activities and achievements of the project as we move towards the end of this current phase of activities (Phase 1).

In this issue:

3rd Year Ending
Sea Level CCI phase I in a Nutshell
Sea level trends over 18years
Upcoming events
Publications

The Newsletter (PDF) can be found here: Newsletter #4

AGU 2013 session: GLOBAL CHANGE Sea Level/Cryospheric change

Start: 2013-12-09 00:00

End: 2013-12-13 23:59

Timezone: Europe/Rome

The AGU’s 46th annual Fall Meetingwill be held in San Francisco, California, 9-13 December. The AGU meeting abstract submission site is currently open, please submit an abstract by the August 6th deadline. Read more »

Calendar

New Sea Level ECV video available

Version 1 of the Sea Level ECV products over an 18 year time period, from Jan 1993 to October 2010 is a multi-satellite merged product that consists of:

Time series of gridded Sea Level Anomalies (SLA): the SLA grids are calculated after merging all the altimetry mission measurements together into monthly grids with a spatial resolution of 1/4 of degree.

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