The bias estimates for the interleaved Jason-1 mission
are gathered in Table 3. As for the study on the nominal
orbit, the computation was performed with and without
the ocean dynamics correction. The mean biases are also
plotted in Fig. 6 for all the crossover points, in all the configurations.
The homogeneity of the results shows the stability
of the regional method. Indeed, in all the cases, the
dispersion of the bias estimates is around 0.8 cm, which is
in the same order as the standard error of the mean bias
(0.4 cm). The biases are also very close to the bias values
on the nominal orbit, both in terms of mean and standard
deviation, with a difference of 0.6 cm between the mean
regional biases estimates and a small increase of the standard
deviation (0.2 cm), principally due to the smaller
number of cycles available on the interleaved orbit. It
means that the Jason-1 mission is still very stable, which
is coherent with the global calibration results