Assessing the Monitoring Capabilities of Sentinel-3 Altimetry over Multiple Surfaces

Graham Quartly1, Francesco Nencioli2, Pierre Féménias3, Sylvie Labroue4, Remko Scharroo5, Saleh Abdalla6, Matthias Raynal7, Marie-Laure Frery4, Stephanie Urien8, Steven Baker9, Alan Stephen Muir10, David Brockley9, Andrew Shepherd11, Monica Roca12, Pablo Nilo Garcia12, Pascal Bonnefond13, Mathilde Cancet14, Jean-Francois Cretaux15, Stephane Calmant16 and Denis Blumstein15, (1)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, EOSA, Plymouth, United Kingdom, (2)Plymouth Marine Laboratory, EOSA, Plymouth, PL1, United Kingdom, (3)ESA - European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy, (4)CLS, France, (5)EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany, (6)ECMWF, Reading, United Kingdom, (7)CLS, Toulouse, France, (8)CLS Collecte Localisation Satellites, Toulouse, France, (9)CPOM, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, United Kingdom, (10)University College London, London, United Kingdom, (11)CPOM, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (12)isardSAT, Barcelona, Spain, (13)SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Research University, CNRS, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, LNE, Paris, France, (14)Noveltis, Labège, France, (15)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (16)IRD, Toulouse Cedex 09, France