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Sea level daily gridded data from satellite observations for the global ocean from 1993 to present

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This new version supersedes the current version , whose production will end in early October 2021.vDT2018, which provides daily data through 6 June 2020 and will no longer be updated.

Note that data from version vDT2021 will be provided only for the global ocean domain. The two following regional sea level datasets will not be updated to the new version and their data record will end on 6 June 2020:

• Sea level daily gridded data from satellite observations for the Mediterranean Sea from 1993 to 2020
• Sea level daily gridded data from satellite observations for the Black Sea from 1993 to 2020

The new vDT2021 The new version includes the following improvements: [TO BE UPDATED]

• Use of the ERA5 Reanalysis as auxiliary data for atmospheric correction in the CDR
• Improved temperature-based correction scheme for sea ice classification in warm conditions
• Level-4 product (instead of Level-3 for version 1.0)
• Start of the Climate Data Record (CDR) in October 1978 (instead of January 1979 for version 1.0)

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import cdsapi

c = cdsapi.Client()

c.retrieve(
    'satellite-sea-level-global',
    {
        'version': 'vDT2021',
        'variable': 'all',
        'format': 'zip',
        'day': '01',
        'month': '01',
        'year': '2020',
    },
    'download.zip')

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