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.


 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.
Extant variables include wind speed, u- and v- wind components, stresses, divergence and curl.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1991-09
    End:  1999-12

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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
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 49.118 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
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Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1994-01-13
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/02BK-MV39
Alternate Identifier d744000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:29:16Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d744000
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. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/02BK-MV39. Accessed 12 October 2025.

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