10.5065/d65b00j3 eng utf8 dataset Daniel R. Chavas drchavas@gmail.com pointOfContact 2023-10-03T15:30:46.439785 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata ISO 19115:2003(E) https://doi.org/10.5065/d65b00j3 QSCAT-R: The QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset 2015 publication Chavas, Daniel R. author Vigh, Jonathan author UCAR/NCAR -- Research Applications Laboratory publisher University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR):National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR):Research Applications Laboratory (RAL):Joint Numerical Testbed Program (JNTP) resourceProvider Princeton University rightsHolder QSCAT-R contains data for the radial structure of near-surface wind and rain rate for tropical cyclones globally during the period 1999-2009. The dataset is derived from the corresponding two-dimensional data fields originally estimated from QuikSCAT satellite measurements and optimized for analysis of tropical cyclones within the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone database. QSCAT-R includes radial profiles of total wind speed and its azimuthal and radial components and corresponding estimates of canonical wind radii, as well as radial profiles of a quantity proportional to rain rate and, when available, collocated SSM/I cloud liquid data. Additionally, data coverage necessarily varies in space and time due to the nature of satellite remote sensing, and thus QSCAT-R provides a parametric measure of data asymmetry to help quantify this form of uncertainty. Overall, as a relatively small dataset (~100 MB) written in a user-friendly NetCDF format, QSCAT-R offers the research community a significant new tool for the analysis of the radial structure of tropical cyclones in nature. Daniel R. Chavas drchavas@gmail.com pointOfContact NetCDF-4 Dataset theme Resource Type 2017-07-17 publication DataCite Metadata Working Group support@datacite.org https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/datacite-metadata originator ​QuikSCAT tropical cyclone hurricane wind field structure size radial profile theme GCMD 2005-11-17 publication NASA Global Change Master Directory ross.bagwell@nasa.gov originator Use of these data are subject to a data user agreement and license. Copyright 2015 Princeton University. (See also http://verif.rap.ucar.edu/tcdata/quikscat/dataset/data_user_agreement_and_license.php ) Access Constraints: Free Access en 2000-01-06T06:54:00 2009-11-21T21:11:00