CryoSat-2 mission phase for "cryo2ice" orbit

[ludwigus785]

Hi,
in July 2020 CryoSat-2 was moved to a new orbit (see https://earth.esa.int/eogateway/missions/cryosat/cryo2ice).
The new mission phase, however, is not covered in the RADS database (neither in the directories nor the nc data attributes). As a consequence, tracks with the same pass number are no longer collinear (after July 2020).

[ezaron]

Hi Remko, Eric,

I am getting strange results when I try to use rads2nc with CryoSat and a --region or --lat, --lon specifiers.

For example, this returns no data:
rads2nc --lat=30,40 --lon=-130,-120 --sat=c2/a --ymd=20230303,20230710 -r any --var time_mjd,lon,lat,sla
but if I remove the geographic limits, I can see plenty of data in this region.

I noticed that if I shift the date, the above command appears to work during and prior to 2020:
rads2nc --lat=30,40 --lon=-130,-120 --sat=c2/a --ymd=20200303,20200710 -r any --var time_mjd,lon,lat,sla
but it does not return data for dates after 2020.

I wonder if this could be related to computed vs actual pass coordinates or something like that.

I'm running rads2nc, version 4.6.2, and I rsync'd to the delft server a few days ago.

-Ed

[remkos]

Update: this is currently (finally) being worked on (by me)