Synthetic along-track altimetry data over 1993-2018 from a NEMO-based simulation of the IMHOTEP project

"Synthetic observations" of along-track SSH have been extracted online during the  production of the global, NEMO-based experiment ** IMHOTEP-GAIc**, at every single time and locations where a true SLA observation exists in the AVISO database for the along-track altimetry from the TOPEX, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3 satellite continuous series over the period 1993-2018. This global ocean/sea-ice/iceberg simulation uses the NEMO model, and has a horizontal resolution of 1/4°. The atmospheric forcing applied at the surface is based on the JRA reanalysis (Kobayashi et al., 2015) and varies over the full range of time-scales from 6 hours to multi-decadal. The freshwater runoff forcing applied to the experiment is fully-variable (monthly to multi-decadal)  based on the ISBA hydrographic reanalysis for rivers (Decharme et al., 2019) and from altimeter data and regional GCM simulations for the liquid and solid discharges from the Greenland ice-sheet (Mouginot et al 2019). These runoffs are only climatological around Antarctica.
The synthetic along-track SSH dataset from the model is available over the altimetry period (1993-2018) on Zenodo. It is provided there along with a time-mean model SSH (gridded model field) over the same period that can be used as a proxy for mean dynamic topography ("MDT").

See the README file for more information.