Abstract
A new Mean Sea Surface (DTU21MSS) for referencing sea level anomalies from satellite altimetry is presented. The major new advance leading up to the release of this MSS the use of 5 years of Sentinel-3A and an improved 10 years Cryosat-2 LRM+SAR+SARin record including retracked altimetry in Polar regions using the SAMOSA+ physical retracker via the ESA GPOD facility.A new processing chain with updated editing and data filtering has been implemented. The filtering implies, that the 20Hz sea surface height data are filtered using the Parks-McClellan filter to derive 1Hz. This has a clear advantage over the 1 Hz boxcar filter in not introducing sidelobes degrading the MSS in the 10-40 km wavelength band. Similarly, the use of consistent ocean tide model for the Mean sea surface improves the usage of sun-syncronous satellites in high latitudes.The presentation will also focus on the difficult issues to consolidating Cryosat-2 and Sentinel-3 onto a past 20 year mean sea surface. This is implemented using simultaneous estimation of the mean, sea level trend and annual and semi-annual variations in sea level.