READ ME File For 'Gridded Altimetric Dynamic Ocean Topography for the Southern Ocean' Dataset DOI: https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3006 Date that the file was created: 1, 2022 ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- ReadMe Author: OANA CLAUDIA DRAGOMIR, University of Southampton [https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7929-9727] Date of data collection: accessed on 2018.09 Information about geographic location of data collection: south of -50 latitude Related projects: -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: CC-BY Recommended citation for the data: Dragomir, Oana Claudia (2024). Gridded Altimetric Dynamic Ocean Topography for the Southern Ocean, University of Southampton. doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D3006 Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: Links/relationships to ancillary or related data sets: -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- This dataset contains: dot_all_30bmedian_eigen6s4v2_sig3.nc dot_all_30bmedian_egm08_sig3.nc dot_all_30bmedian_goco05c_sig3.nc Relationship between files, if important for context: Every file contains estimates of the Dynamic Ocean Topography referenced to three different geoid products: EIGEN6s4v2, EGM2008, and GOCO05c. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package: If data was derived from another source, list source: Level 2 Baseline C data are provided by CPOM/UCL. If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made: only first version available -------------------------- METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION -------------------------- Description of methods used for collection/generation of data: Methods for processing the data: https://github.com/oana-dragomir/PhD_altimetry.git Software- or Instrument-specific information needed to interpret the data, including software and hardware version numbers: the netcdf format is easily accessible in most data processing software Standards and calibration information, if appropriate: n/a Environmental/experimental conditions: n/a Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data: People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission: Oana Claudia Dragomir -------------------------- DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION <Create sections for each datafile or set, as appropriate> -------------------------- Number of variables: 10 Number of cases/rows: Variable list, defining any abbreviations, units of measure, codes or symbols used: dot: dynamic ocean topography, m ug: zonal geostrophic velocity, m/s vg: meridional geostrophic velocity, m/s land_mask: land mask where 1=land, 0=ocean intersat_offset: intersatellite offset mask, m longitude: degrees north latitude: degrees east time: days since 2002-07-01 edge_lat: latitude at the edges of grid cells, degrees north edge_lon: longitude at the edges of grid cells, degrees east Missing data codes: NaN Specialized formats or other abbreviations used: