ASCAT 12.5 km Level 2 Ocean Surface Wind Vector Data

This data set contains operational near-real-time global Level 2 ocean surface wind vector retrievals from the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on the MetOp-A satellite at 12.5 km sampling resolution (note: the effective resolution is 25 km). These data were provided by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) Ocean and Sea Ice Scatterometer Application Facility (OSI SAF) and were retrieved from the NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center. The data are in NetCDF format.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2011-10-01T01:00:00Z
    End:  2012-04-01T02:58:00Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2011-10-01T01:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2012-04-01T02:58:00Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00000
Bounding Box South Lat -90.00000
Bounding Box West Long -180.00000
Bounding Box East Long 180.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : ASCAT_Product_Manual.pdf

Documentation #2 : readme_dynamo_ascat.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format netCDF compressed with GNU Zip (.gz) (application/x-gzip)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 7324 MB
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Software Implementation Language N/A

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Author EUMETSAT/OSI SAF
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2012-09-07T16:48:41
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/TQZK-JAT1-K50D
Alternate Identifier 347.036
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:52:20Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::347.036
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation EUMETSAT/OSI SAF. (2012). ASCAT 12.5 km Level 2 Ocean Surface Wind Vector Data. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.26023/TQZK-JAT1-K50D. Accessed 18 April 2024.

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