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The SeaWinds QuikSCAT L2B Scatterometer Ocean Winds, Version 3.0

The SeaWinds instrument on QuikSCAT is an active microwave radar designed to measure electromagnetic backscatter from the wind roughened ocean surface. The L2B data are presented as orbit swaths of wind speed and direction at a 25 KM resolution. The satellite is in a sun synchronous orbit with a 101 minute period and a repeat cycle of 4 days (57 orbits).



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PERIODS: 1999-07-19 to 2009-10-31 (SeaWinds on QuikSCAT Level 2B Ocean Wind Vectors in 25 Km Swath Grid)
UPDATES: Monthly (nominally)
VARIABLES:
Surface Winds
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Every 101 minutes
TYPES: Satellite
SOURCES: NASA/JPL/PODAAC
Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA
RELATED SITES: NASA JPL PO.DAAC
PUBLICATIONS: Callahan,P.S., and Ted Lungu - Editors, 2006: QuikSCAT Science Data Product User's Manual, Version 3.0. D-18053 - Rev A, JPL/NASA, 85 pp.

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 ds744.2."
VOLUME: 134.45 GBytes (Entire dataset)
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DATA FORMATS: HDF
RELATED DATASETS: ds744.3 - SeaWinds QuickSCAT Scatterometer Ocean Winds from Remote Sensing Systems
ds744.4 - QSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds from Colorado Research Associates (version 5.0)
ds744.5 - QSCAT (KU-2001) Ocean Winds Derived by Locally Weighted Regression Interpolation (Version 1e)

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