Description: Ocean surface wind speed over the globe on 4 October 2014 as measured by RapidScat on the International Space Station (ISS) using the Level 2B Climate Ocean Wind Vectors in 12.5km Footprints Version 1.0 dataset produced by the RapidScat Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Access to these data may be obtained by visiting: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/RSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V1. A more recent version of this dataset has been reprocessed (version 2) which may be accessed here: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/RSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V2. To learn more about the ISS-RapidScat Mission, please visit: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ISS-RapidScat.

Credit: JPL/PO.DAAC