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The assessment of data quality and the system performance of the altimeter are very important to data application. In this article, Sentinel-3A SRAL data quality is assessed and altimetry system performance is estimated by verifying data availability and monitoring the parameters of altimeter and radiometer through the global statistical analyses of Sentinel-3A Non-Time-Critical (NTC) Marine Level 2 products during the period from 13 March 2016 to 25 February 2019, in comparison with self-crossovers and cross-calibration with the Jason-3 mission. The global statistical analyses and the comparisons at self-crossovers show that Sentinel-3A SRAL data and performance are stable and have no trend over time, and the total cycle average root mean square errors (RMSEs) of sea surface height (SSH) differences at self-crossovers is about 5.4 cm. The comparisons at the dual-crossovers show the consistency of the observation between Sentinel-3A SRAL and Jason-3, and indicate that the systemic bias of SSH is about 2.96 cm. In general, it can be concluded that Sentinel-3A SRAL has good and stable data quality and system performance for operational ocean forecasting and scientific research.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs11131573","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,3]],"date-time":"2019-07-03T11:14:49Z","timestamp":1562152489000},"page":"1573","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["Sentinel-3A SRAL Global Statistical Assessment and Cross-Calibration with Jason-3"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0233-750X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jungang","family":"Yang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"}]},{"given":"Jie","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China"}]},{"given":"Changying","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Data Science and Software Engineering, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266071, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,7,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"37","DOI":"10.1016\/j.rse.2011.07.024","article-title":"The Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Sentinel-3 mission","volume":"120","author":"Donlon","year":"2012","journal-title":"Remote Sens. 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