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Evaluation of historic and operational satellite radar altimetry missions for constructing consistent long-term lake water level records
Song Shu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography and Planning, Appalachian State University,
Boone, NC 28608, USA
Hongxing Liu
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Geography, the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487, USA
Richard A. Beck
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
Frédéric Frappart
Laboratoire d'Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales (LEGOS), UMR 5566, CNRS/IRD/UPS, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), 14 Avenue Édouard Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Johanna Korhonen
Finnish Environment Institute, SYKE, Freshwater Center,
Latokartanonkaari 11, 00790 Helsinki, Finland
Minxuan Lan
Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
Min Xu
College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA
Bo Yang
Department of Sociology, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA
Yan Huang
Key Laboratory of Geographical Information Science, Ministry of Education, School of Geographical Science, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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Short summary
This study comprehensively evaluated 11 satellite radar altimetry missions (including their official retrackers) for lake water level retrieval and developed a strategy for constructing consistent long-term water level records for inland lakes. It is a two-step bias correction and normalization procedure. First, we use Jason-2 as the initial reference to form a consistent TOPEX/Poseidon–Jason series. Then, we use this as the reference to remove the biases with other radar altimetry missions.
This study comprehensively evaluated 11 satellite radar altimetry missions (including their...
