Airborne Radar Observation Dataset Of Sea Surface Height On 8 December 2016

This dataset contains the results of time-series sea surface height (SSH) observation data of flight No.1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 on 8 December 2016 by airborne altimeter measurement using a frequency modulated continuous wave (FM-CW) radar. The observation flight were carried out south of Japan passed over the Kuroshio Current. The data files are written in CSV format, the columns are UTC date, time, latitude, longitude, flight altitude, observed SSH, 1 min moving averaged SSH values, geoid height, and tide height. The geoid height and the tide height are derived by the EGM 2008 model (Pavlis et al. 2012) and the Nao.99Jb model (Matsumoto et al. 2000), respectively. The original data sampling rate of 800 microseconds is resampled by 80 milliseconds in each file. The data comes from a paper under review for Geophysical Research Letter.