Ocean Surface Topography: Deepwater Horizon Support

This page contains Gridded 5-day mean sea surface height anomaly (SSHA) and Ku Band significant waveheight (SWH-KU) observed from Jason-1 and OSTM/Jason-2 satellites. This dataset has been generated in near-real time during the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Event in order to provide users a quick view on the sea level change and wave activity in the Gulf region. All the observations within 5 days are interpolated into 0.25 longitude degree and 0.25 latitude degree uniform grid.

• Archived version of this data set
• Directory view of images and animations
• Data used to render images below: (NetCDF file) (Opendap file)

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Gridded 5-day mean Ku Band significant waveheight (SWH-KU)

April

11

through 15

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