QuikSCAT Wind Vector Data
https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.031

Summary
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.

Identifiers
 * Local archive identifier: 68.031
 * doi:10.26023/901F-CY2X-P20S
   https://doi.org/10.26023/901F-CY2X-P20S

Versions
  1.0

Citation
 Remote Sensing Systems. 2008. DYCOMS-II: QuikSCAT Wind Vector Data. Version
 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory.
 https://doi.org/10.26023/901F-CY2X-P20S Accessed 19 Apr 2024.

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Acknowledgement
In addition to the citation reference and any other acknowledgements,
please acknowledge NCAR/EOL in your publications with text such as:

  Data provided by NCAR/EOL under the sponsorship of
  the National Science Foundation.
  https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

Related projects
 * DYCOMS-II: Dynamics and Chemistry of Marine Stratocumulus Phase II
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/project/DYCOMS-II

Additional information
 * Spatial Type: grid
 * Frequency: criteria
 * Language: English

Categories
 * Satellite

Platforms
 * QuikSCAT

Instruments
 * SeaWinds Scatterometer

GCMD Science Keywords
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION
 * EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED

Documentation
 * readme_sat_qscat_winds.txt [10 KiB]
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/file/download/4173D4F8/readme_sat_qscat_winds.txt

Related links
 * homepage: DYCOMS-II Project Homepage
   https://www.eol.ucar.edu/field_projects/dycoms-ii
 * info: DYCOMS-II Missions
   https://catalog.eol.ucar.edu/dycoms/catalog/missions/
 * info: http://www.ssmi.com/

Temporal coverage
 * Begin datetime: 2001-07-07 00:00:00 
 * End datetime: 2001-07-28 23:59:59 

Spatial coverage
 * Maximum (North) Latitude: 37.00
 * Minimum (South) Latitude: 27.00
 * Minimum (West) Longitude: -126.00
 * Maximum (East) Longitude: -114.00

Primary contact information
 * pointOfContact: Deborah Smith <smith@remss.com>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/287

Additional contact information
 * author: Remote Sensing Systems <support@remss.com>
   https://data.eol.ucar.edu/contact/show/554

Alternate metadata formats
 * DataCite: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.031?format=datacite
 * ISO/TC 211: https://data.eol.ucar.edu/dataset/68.031?format=isotc211