The authors kindly acknowledge other members of their
teams who were involved in the calibration and validation
activities at the Corsican sites. The Jason-1 GDR products
(produced by CNES/NASA) and the Jason-2 GDR products
(produced by CNES) are provided by AVISO. The
observations of Ajaccio are the property of RONIM
(SHOM) and are available on the REFMAR website (refmar.
shom.fr). The Envisat altimeter data used in this study
were developed, validated, and distributed by the CTOH/
LEGOS, France. The atmospheric forcing data were provided
by ECMWF. This work was mainly funded by
CNES and ESA. The authors finally thank the anonymous
reviewers and the editor for their helpful comments and
suggestions on this paper.