References

Publication

• Meyssignac B., Ablain M., Guérou A., Prandi P., Barnoud A., Blazquez A., Fourest S., Rousseau V., Bonnefond P., Cazenave A., Chenal J., Dibarboure G., Donlon C., Benveniste J., Sylvestre-Baron A. & Vinogradova N., 2023. How accurate is accurate enough for measuring sea-level rise and variability, Nature Climate Change, 13, 796-803, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01735-z 

• Kevin Gobron, Roland Hohensinn, Claire E. Bulgin, Xavier Loizeau, Emma R. Woolliams, Christopher J. Merchant, Jon Mittaz, Adam C. Povey, Mary Langsdale, Wouter Dorigo, Maurice G. Cox, Michael Ablain, Anna Klos, Alexander Gruber, and Janusz Bogusz, 2026. A Unified Framework for Trend Uncertainty Assessment in Climate Data Record: Application to the Analysis of the Global Mean Sea Level Measured by Satellite Altimetry, under review

Communications

• Ablain M., Barnoud A., Meyssignac B. & Guérou A., Extending the climate sea-level data record with Sentinel-6-MF: uncertainty and stability requirements. Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting, March 2022 virtual meeting [presentation]

• Ablain M., Meyssignac B., Barnoud A. & Guérou A., Sea level rise from satellite altimetry data: uncertainty and stability requirements. Sea level workshop, June 2022, Brest (France) [presentation]

• Ablain M., Barnoud A., Meyssignac B., Guérou A., Dinardo S., Tran N., Figerou S., Woolliams E., Cheales H., Behnia S., Mittaz J., Donlon C. & Cullen R., Sea level rise due to climate change: What do we know? What are the next questions to address? How does metrology help us to answer? Metrology for climate action workshop, September 2022 [video and poster]

• Behnia S., Mittaz J., Cheales H. & Woolliams E., Propagating uncertainties and error correlation structures through retracking and sea state bias correction. Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting, November 2022, Venice (Italy) [doi, poster]

• Woolliams E., Ablain M., Barnoud A., Meyssignac B., Guérou A., Dinardo S., Tran N., Figerou S., Cheales H., Behnia S., Mittaz J., Donlon C. & Cullen R., Sea level rise uncertainties: insights from a metrological approach. Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting, November 2022, Venice (Italy) [doi, presentation]

• Barnoud A., Ablain M., Meyssignac B., Woolliams E., Behnia S., Cheales H., Mittaz J., Labroue S., Thibaut P., Tran N., Dinardo S., Donlon C. & Cullen R., How to reach the scientific uncertainty requirements for scientific questions in future altimetry missions? Ocean Surface Topography Science Team Meeting, November 2023, Puerto Rico (USA) [doi, poster]

• Ablain M., Meyssignac B., Fraudeau R., Marti F., Rousseau V., Barnoud A., Bouih M., Lalau N., Pfeffer J., Szczypta C., Vaujour T., Blazquez A., Fourest S., Prandi P., Quiet V., Mangilli A., Dibarboure G., Egido A., Donlon C. & Benveniste J., From 30 years of stable sea level altimetry measurements to accurate estimates of the Earth energy imbalance, 30 years of progress in radar altimetry symposium, September 2024, Montpellier (France) [presentation]

• Lalau N., Barnoud A., Ablain M., Fraudeau R., Meyssignac B., Woolliams E., Behnia S., Mittaz J., Labroue S., Thibaut P., Ollivier A., Egido A., Donlon C. & Cullen R., Deriving an end-to-end sea level rise stability uncertainty budget to improve the altimetry record and reach the scientific requirements: the ESA ASELSU project. 30 years of progress in radar altimetry symposium, September 2024, Montpellier (France) [poster]

• Loizeau X., Howard T., Woolliams E. & Behnia S., How do measurement error and natural variability contribute to trend estimation uncertainty? 30 years of progress in radar altimetry symposium, September 2024, Montpellier (France) [presentation]

• Ablain, M., Lalau, N., Kern, L., Vaujour, T., Meyssignac B., Woolliams E. , Behnia S., Ollivier A., Prandi, P., Carrere, L., Egido A., Donlon C. & Cullen R., Sentinel-6 Next Generation: Sea Level Stability Uncertainty Budget. Living Planet Symposium, 23-27 June 2025, Vienna (Austria) [presentation] 

• Ablain, M., Lalau, N., Meyssignac B., Woolliams E. , Quet, V., Egido A., Cazenave, A., Obligis, E., Mertikas, S., Nerem, S., Dettmering, D., Sperling, A., How to Ensure Accuracy and Stability of Sea Level Measurements? Calibration, Validation and Verification for Current and Future Reference Altimeter Missions. Living Planet Symposium, 23-27 June 2025, Vienna (Austria) [Insight Session] 

• Lalau, N.,  Ablain, M., Kern, L., Vaujour, T., Meyssignac B., Woolliams E. , Behnia S., Ollivier A., Egido A., Sentinel-6 Next Generation: Sea Level Stability Uncertainty Budget. EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference 2025, 15 - 19 September 2025, Lyon (France) [presentation] 

• Ablain, M., Lalau, N.,  Woolliams E. , Egido A., How to assess the seal level rise stability uncertainty budget of Sentinel-6 Next Generation missions ? 2nd International Review Workshop on Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val & Metrology, 22 - 25 September 2025, Crete (Greece) [presentation] 

• Woolliams E. , Behnia S.,  Loizeau, X., Mittaz, J., Egido, A., Towards a Robust Metrological Assessment of the Uncertainties of Sea Level Anomaly Measurements from Sentinel 6. 2nd International Review Workshop on Satellite Altimetry Cal/Val & Metrology, 22 - 25 September 2025, Crete (Greece) [presentation] 

Project technical notes

• • A comprehensive assessment of the end-to-end Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich sea level stability uncertainty budget [V1.0]

  • Verification and validation of the end-to-end Sentinel-6 sea level stability uncertainty budget [V1.0]

  • An improved sea level rise stability uncertainty budget for the Sentinel-6 Next Generation [V1.0]

  • ASELSU scientific roadmap [V1.0]