Abstract
A sensitivity analysis is performed on the level-2 algorithms for the Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM). This analysis quantifies how inaccuracies in the fundamental measurements impact the overall sea-surface-height measurements. The analysis is applied to examine the various biases between OSTM and Jason-1 during their formation-flying phase. We further investigate data from the formation-flying phase by analyzing a statistical artifact that manifests itself as an apparent scale error in differences of the 1-Hz ionospheric corrections from the two missions.
Acknowledgements
The work described in this paper was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.