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Hi Claude,
Thank you for the kind words.
Now that the scripts have been written for descending passes, doing the same for ascending passes only requires some minor changes, so the computer will do most of the work.
Yet, downloading the files will take some time and there is a holiday next week, so I may not be able to provide the new plots before the second half of the week.
Cheers,
Sylvain
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Sylvain,
I perfectly remember what you told me before that downloading the files takes some significant time.
And I am pleased to have the confirmation of what I imagined that dealing with ascending passes only requires minor changes in the script.
We are not at all in a hurry so take the time you want, the end of next week will be perfect for me.
Now, from a pure "software-engineer" point of view, do you think there is some interest for you to write something for the SWOT community? I mean I already discussed with "SWOT specialists" about what I wanted to do (so about what you did) that is, in some sense, computing a refined geoid from the data available from the web site and they did not believe in what I proposed, so in what you did. In case you plan to write something, please give me the reference.
In case you do not plan to write anything, I think I will have enough results from your SWOT results to efficiently complete what I already wrote and submit kind of manuscript to an oceanographic journal. Let me know if you are interested in reading what I will write... hopefully accepting to co-sign?
Enjoy the holidays to come.
Cheers,
Claude
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I am not a researcher and my field of expertise is in building processing systems and visualisation tools, so I don't plan to write about this, my opinion would not be relevant. Maybe there are altimetry experts outside the SWOT community who would be interested in investigating the physics aspects of this phenomenon with you? Or maybe the SWOT specialists would show interest now if the plots we prepare clearly confirm your hypothesis?
In any case, I would definitely be happy to read what you will write about this.
Cheers,
Sylvain
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Hi Sylvain,
I perfectly understand but your help has been so important to get what I will write!
Anyway, if we are "very lucky", the relatively important and purely oceanic lowering sampled south and east of Maupiti during the descending SWOT path on Dec. 30 will be sampled again (more to the west) during the ascending paths. Obviously, feel free to appreciate whether to consider such a path (eventually several) in the mean or not.
Enjoy your holidays.
Cheers,
Claude
