ESA Sea State Climate Change Initiative (Sea_State_cci): Global remote sensing multi-mission along-track Integrated Sea State Parameters (ISSP) from SAR IW onboard Sentinel-1A & 1B, L2P product, release version 4 2023-01

The ESA Sea State Climate Change Initiative (CCI) project has produced global multi-sensor time-series of along-track satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) integrated sea state parameters (ISSP) data from Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath Mode (referred to as SAR IW image mode onboard Sentinel-1 Level 2P (L2P) ISSP data) with a particular focus for use in climate studies.This dataset contains the Sentinel-1 SAR IW Remote Sensing Integrated Sea State Parameter product, which forms part of the ESA Sea State CCI version 4.0 release. Sentinel-1 Interferometric Wide Swath Mode (IW) combines a large swath width with a moderate geometric resolution. The individual IW images cover approximately 200 km in azimuth and 250 km in the range direction with a pixel spacing of 10 m. This product provides along-track primary significant wave height measurements and secondary sea state parameters, calibrated with CMEMS (Copernicus Marine Service) model data and reference in situ measurements at 5 km resolution over each image, processed with the SAR-SeaStaR (SAR Sea State Retrieval) algorithm used developed at the DLR (German Aerospace Center), separated per satellite and image, including all measurements with flags and uncertainty estimates. These are expert products with rich content and no data loss. The SAR IW data used in the Sea State CCI SAR IW onboard Sentinel-1 Level 2P (L2P) ISSP v4 dataset come from the Sentinel-1 satellite missions spanning from 2014 to 2024 (Sentinel-1 A, Sentinel-1 B).Reference: Pleskachevsky, A., Tings, B., S. Wiehle, S., Imber, J., Jacobsen, S., 2022. Multiparametric sea state fields from synthetic aperture radar for maritime situational awareness. Remote Sens. Environ., vol. 280, Oct. 2022, Art. no. 113200.