ESA ERS-1 and ERS-2 Scatterometer Ocean Surface Winds

There are several products available in this dataset. * Wind direction and speed derived by JPL from the scatterometer instrument aboard the ERS-1 and ERS-2 satellites. These along swath orbit data are online at NCAR. However, due to restrictions place on the data usage, by the European Space Agency (ESA), data users must first receive permission to use this dataset. Questions concerning permission should be directed to: * The above ERS products were archived in the 1990s and are quite old versions. Better versions are available through European KNMI/ESA sources. [https://scatterometer.knmi.nl/archived_prod/] * 1-degree by 1-degree, 80S to 80N, monthly mean grids for ERS1 (1991.01-1996.05) and ERS2 (1996.04-1999.12). These data were obtained directly from CERSAT, IFREMER, France. [http://cersat.ifremer.fr/] Extant variables include wind speed, u- and v- wind components, stresses, divergence and curl.

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  • Zaihua Ji
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    UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive

Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1991-09
    End:  1999-12

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1991-09
Temporal Range End 1999-12
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF (Binary)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 49.00 MB
Legal Constraints

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Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1994-01-13
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/02BK-MV39
Alternate Identifier ds744.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-01-03T15:12:03-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds744.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. (1994). ESA ERS-1 and ERS-2 Scatterometer Ocean Surface Winds. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.5065/02BK-MV39. Accessed 16 April 2024.

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