Download the data

The data are hosted and can be accessed on the MEOM server opendap here. You can store the downloaded dataset in the swot_data/ directory.

To download the SWOT dataset locally, you will need approximately 4 GB of disk space.

Data information

The dataset is presented with the following directory structure:

1) Data for 1 day repeat cycle

swot_1j_share/SWOT_L3_LR_SSH_Expert_500_*_v0.2.nc

1) Data for 1 day repeat cycle

swot_21j_share/SWOT_L3_LR_SSH_Expert_003_*_v0.1.nc

Download and read the data

wget https://ige-meom-opendap.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/thredds/fileServer/meomopendap/extract/MEOM/OCEAN_DATA_CHALLENGES/2024b_DC_SWOTdenoising/swot_data.tar.gz 
tar -xvf swot_data.tar.gz  
rm -f swot_data.tar.gz

and

wget https://ige-meom-opendap.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/thredds/fileServer/meomopendap/extract/MEOM/OCEAN_DATA_CHALLENGES/2024b_DC_SWOTdenoising/denoised_data.tar.gz 
tar -xvf denoised_data.tar.gz  
rm -f denoised_data.tar.gz

Example notebooks

A notebook to illustrate how to download and read the data is available: demo_download_swotdata.ipynb