Data from the mission has shown to be very useful in meeting that objective as shown in a wide variety of studies including the global ocean circulation, propagation of Rossby and Kelvin waves, climate models, ocean seasonal variations, ocean current variations and better understanding of air-sea interactions. The satellites position is known to within 3 centimeters from Earth's center, this has allowed measurements of the sea surface height with unprecedented accuracy.
Data are available from a variety of sources .
30 degrees Celsius is about 30 times the volume of water in all the U.S. Great Lakes combined. The increased volume of warm water resulted in greater evaporation and consequently very high precipitaion along the coastal regions of the north and south America. Satellite imaging Earth.