mean sea surface model covering 50 years for the Arctic Ocean

Project deliverable 2.2.1

The Monarch-A 50 years Mean Sea Surface model for the Arctic Ocean is made available on a 2 minute resolution for the Arctic Ocean covering the region north of 60.98333N and have been made available relative to two ellipsoids:

Relative to the TOPEX ellipsoid                 MONARCH-A_MSS_TP

Relative to the WGS-84 Ellipsoid              MONARCH-A_MSS_WGS84

Both models are available for download at the Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space official website, but will shortly become available at the Monarch-A website as well. The official web address for currently download via the DTU space is

ftp.space.dtu.dk/pub/MONARCH-A/MSS

Both models are available as .grd ASCII file format and .xyz ASCII file format.