Satellite Surface Wind Data Sets
A Cross-Calibrated Multi-Platform Ocean Surface Wind Velocity Product for Meteorological and Oceanographic Applications
Satellite surface wind data are obtained from Remote Sensing Systems (RSS) under the DISCOVER project (Distributed Information Services: Climate/Ocean Products and Visualizations for Earth Research). RSS uses a more accurate sea-surface emissivity model resulting in much better consistency between wind speed retrievals from microwave radiometers (SSM/I, AMSR, TMI) and those from scatterometers (NSCAT and Seawinds). All observations are referenced to a height of 10 meters assuming that the boundary layer over the ocean is neutrally stable. Table 1 shows the availability of satellite ocean surface wind products from RSS.
| Year | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 | 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | |
| F08 | 7/9 | 12/31 | |||||||||||||||||||
| F10 | 12/8 | 11/14 | |||||||||||||||||||
| F11 | 12/3 | 5/16 | |||||||||||||||||||
| F13 | 5/3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| F14 | 5/8 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| F15 | 12/18 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| AMSRE | 6/1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| TMI | 12/6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| QSCAT | 7/19 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| SEAWINDS | 4/10-10/24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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