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Altimetric backscattering data are supplied here.

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As detailed in reference paper, the statistics were computed on the backscattering coefficients (sig0) presnt in the altimetry missions GDR for OCEAN (Brown, 1977; Rodriguez 1988), OCOG/ICE-1/ICE (Wingham et al., 1986) and ICE-2 (Legrésy & Rémy, 1997) retracking algorithms, peakiness from OCOG/ICE-1/ICE and on the two waveform parameters given by ICE-2 retracker : leading edge width (lew) and trailing edge slope (tes).

The Dataset of those parameters is given for several multi-frequencies (S, C, Ku and Ka) and global-scale over land for the following LRM radar altimetry missions: ERS-2, Jason-1, ENVISAT, Jason-2 and SARAL.

The datafiles are organized as normpass structure. The norm_index dimension is the number of the cell along of the altimetric pass and its coordinates are given by the variables lon and lat. As function of the temporal statistics, the parameter variable has one or two others dimensions : month_index and year_index. Here below are detailed each variable for each mission.

References to cite when using this product:

Doi: 10.6096/CTOH_BACKSCATTER_2020_01
Ref. paper : Frappart et al. (2020). BACKSCATTERING SIGNATURES AT Ka, Ku, C AND S BANDS FROM LOW RESOLUTION RADAR ALTIMETRY OVER LAND, Advances in Space Research.

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