Units for gridded MSLA delayed time data

[jafflerbachParticipant]

I’m using the Averaged DT-MSLA monthly datasets (http://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/sea-surface-height-products/global/msla-mean-climatology.html#c10358) for my project and don’t understand what units the data are in. Within the netCDF file the metedata states the units are in m (meters). It also lists a scale_factor = 0.0001.

How do I implement the scale_factor? The data seems incorrect if the scale_factor is or is not used.

Data was downloaded from
ftp://ftp.aviso.altimetry.fr/global/delayed-time/grids/climatology/monthly_mean

All files begin with:

dt_global_allsat_msla_h_

[bratKeymaster]

Hi Jafflerbach,

Normally the scale factor is already applied when the data is read, so the units should be meters when you look at the data in BRAT.

Regards,

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