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NSCAT Scatterometer Ocean Winds, Level 2
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NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) global ocean surface winds are determined
from sigma-naught backscatter. JPL has provided the data, and the
satellite provided only a short archive (1996sep-1997jun) before
failure. The
near surface wind speeds were determined with the NSCAT-1 model function.
Several forms of NSCAT data are available.
- Level 2B orbit swath data.
- 0.5-degree by 0.5-degree 2x daily gridded fields, 75S to 75N.
- In July 1998 a collection of 11 CD-ROMs containing the Level
2(50km), Level 3 (daily average), and Level 2(25km) NSCAT
were received and archived in the DSS CD-ROM collection. These
CD's have a full collection of documentation, read access
software, browse images, and ancillary information.
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| PERIODS: |
1996-09 to 1997-06
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| VARIABLES: |
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| TYPES: |
Grid
Satellite
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| SOURCES: |
NASA/JPL/PODAAC Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
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| RELATED SITES: |
Ocean Vector Wind at JPL
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds744.1."
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| VOLUME: |
62.70 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
Binary (see dataset documentation),
HDF
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| RELATED DATASETS: |
ds744.2 - The SeaWinds QuikSCAT L2B Scatterometer Ocean Winds, Version 3.0
ds744.6 - NSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (Version 1.0)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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