QuikSCAT Wind Vector Data

The QuikSCAT Wind Vector Data is one of several satellite data sets collected by the National Center For Atmospheric Research/Earth Observing Laboratory (NCAR/EOL) as part of the Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II: Entrainment Studies (DYCOMS-II) project. QuikSCAT is a microwave scatterometer launched in June 1999. The QSCAT data are stored in orbit files and include wind speed and direction at a height of 10 meters retrieved from measurements of the QSCAT backscattered power. The data cover the period from 7-28 July 2001 and are in binary format. The data and readme information were acquired from Remote Sensing Systems (www.ssmi.com) and are from Version 3.0 of their processing algorithms.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  2001-07-07T00:00:00Z
    End:  2001-07-28T23:59:59Z

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 2001-07-07T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2001-07-28T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 37.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 27.00000
Bounding Box West Long -126.00000
Bounding Box East Long -114.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : readme_sat_qscat_winds.txt
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format Binary (application/octet-stream)
Standardized Resource Format Binary
Asset Size 1019 MB
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Access Constraints none
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name EOL Data Support
Resource Support Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization N/A
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Metadata Contact Name EOL Data Support
Metadata Contact Email datahelp@eol.ucar.edu
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Author Remote Sensing Systems
Publisher N/A
Publication Date 2008-05-16T15:20:27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.26023/901F-CY2X-P20S
Alternate Identifier 68.031
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-08-01T18:05:54Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::68.031
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Remote Sensing Systems. (2008). QuikSCAT Wind Vector Data. 1.0. https://doi.org/10.26023/901F-CY2X-P20S. Accessed 30 August 2025.

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