Daily Surface Wind Analyses QuickSCAT

Daily and monthly surface wind analyses are determined as gridded wind products over global oceans, with regular spatial resolution of 0.25° in latitude and longitude. They are estimated from scatterometer wind retrievals (L2b data). According to the scatterometer sampling scheme, the objective method allowing the determination of regular in space surface wind fields uses remotely sensed observations as well as ECMWF analyses. The calculation of daily estimates uses ascending as well as descending available and valid retrievals. The objective method aims to provide daily-averaged gridded wind speed, zonal component, meridional component, wind stress and the corresponding components at global scale. The error associated to each parameter, related to the sampling impact and wind space and time variability, is provided too. Monthly wind analyses are calculated from daily estimates.

 
Citation proposal
Bentamy Abderrahim (IFREMER) - Croize-Fillon Denis (IFREMER) (2021) . Daily Surface Wind Analyses QuickSCAT. IFREMER https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0aff8911-e690-4d04-801a-34de094f258f

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Date ( Creation )
2012-10-01
Date ( Publication )
2021-04-22
Identifier

FR-330-715-368-00032-LOPS_WIND_QUICKSCAT

Identifier

DOI:10.12770/0aff8911-e690-4d04-801a-34de094f258f

Credit

Ifremer - LOPS

  Author

  02 98 22 45 33 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

  • Caractéristiques géographiques océanographiques

Thèmes Sextant ( Theme )

  • /Milieu chimique/Colonne d'eau

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Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Oceans
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S
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W


Reference system identifier

EPSG

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WGS 84 (EPSG:4326)

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8.6

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Geometry only
Number of dimensions
2
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Row
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  • ()

OnLine resource
/home/ref-sat-dailywind/QuikSCAT  
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Dataset
Statement

More details about data, objective method, and computation algorithm may be found in (Bentamy et al, 2011). Daily wind analyses, named L3 products, are available along the period 1999 – 2009 and calculated from QuikSCAT L2b

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0aff8911-e690-4d04-801a-34de094f258f   XML
Metadata language
French
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2021-08-31T10:27:13
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT

Metadata standard version

1.0

  Point of contact

  02 98 22 45 33 
 
 

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