CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Sea-surface height
Height of the sea surface relative to a geodetic reference surface. In satellite altimetry it is commonly relative to a reference ellipsoid; model products may use a geoid-based reference.
- Canonical key
sea_surface_height- Parameter family
- Sea level
- Scientific category
- Sea level
- Canonical unit
- m
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- sea_surface_height_above_geoid
- Vertical domain
- surface
- Required qualifiers
- reference_surface; processing level
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 5
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- NASA PO.DAAC NASA JPL / EOSDIS
- Copernicus Marine satellite observations Copernicus Marine Service
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch