NSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (Version 1.0)

Ocean surface wind vector components and wind stress curl data products are derived from spatial blending of high-resolution satellite data (NASA Scatterometer - NSCAT) and global weather center reanalyses (NCEP), resulting in high temporal and spatial resolution datasets (6-hourly, and 0.5 degree). This global dataset spans 12 months, August 1996 through July 1997.

The NSCAT scatterometer data is oriented along polar-orbit satellite swaths. The double-sided instrument yielded two swaths. Each of them about 600 kilometers wide with a 350 km nadir gap and at 50 km resolution. The NCEP data consists of global, 6-hourly reanalysis fields on T62 Gaussian grid with approximate resolution of 1.8 degrees.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1996
    End:  1997

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1996
Temporal Range End 1997
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

Related Resource #1 : NASA JPL PO.DAAC
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Binary
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 13358 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange

Author Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2002-05-09
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/32NX-QM68
Alternate Identifier d744006
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T01:38:56Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d744006
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Northwest Research Associates, Inc.. (2002). NSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (Version 1.0). NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/32NX-QM68. Accessed 04 October 2025.

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