MetOp-A ASCAT Level 2 25-km Ocean Surface Wind Vector Climate Data Record

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DOI	10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0006
Short Name	ASCATA_L2_25KM_CDR
Description	This dataset represents the first historically reprocessed Level 2 ocean surface wind vector climate data record from the Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) on MetOp-A sampled on a 25 km grid. Products at 25-km sampling are less noisy than 12.5-km products, but also contain less geophysical information on small scales and near the coasts. The wind vector retrievals are currently processed using the CMOD7 geophysical model function using a Hamming filter to spatially average the Level 1 Sigma-0 data over 25 km swath grid cells. Each file corresponds to one complete orbit and is provided in netCDF version 3 format. The beginning of the orbit files is defined near the South Pole. ASCAT is a C-band fan beam radar scatterometer, providing two independent swaths of backscatter retrievals, aboard the MetOp-A platform in sun-synchronous polar orbit. It is a product of the European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (OSI SAF) provided through the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). For more information on the MetOp mission, please visit: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanWind/MetOp. For access to more contemporaneous and near-real-time MetOp-A ASCAT 25-km data, please visit: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/ASCATA-L2-25km. For more timely announcements, users are encouraged to register with the KNMI scatterometer email list: scat@knmi.nl. All intellectual property rights of the OSI SAF products belong to EUMETSAT. The use of these products is granted to every interested user, free of charge. If you wish to use these products, EUMETSAT's copyright credit must be shown by displaying the words "copyright (year) EUMETSAT" on each of the products used. Use cases and feedback on the products will be much appreciated and in fact helps to sustain the reprocessing capability.
Version	1.0
Dataset Type	OPEN
Measurement	Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface Winds > Ocean Surface Wind Vectors
Processing Level	2
Coverage	Region: Global Northernmost Latitude: 89.6 degrees Southernmost Latitude: -89.6 degrees Westernmost Longitude: 0 degrees Easternmost Longitude: 360 degrees Time Span: 2007-Jan-01 to 2014-Apr-01
Resolution	Spatial Resolution: 25 km (Along) x 25 km (Across)
Projection	Type: Swath Detail: Twin-Swath, each 512.5 km wide, sub-track (nadir) gap of 737.5 km Ellipsoid: GEM6
Latency	hours
Swath Width	1 m
Sample Frequency	-
Temporal Repeat (Nominal)	12 Hour
Temporal Repeat (Min)	1.7 Hour
Temporal Repeat (Max)	5 Day
Platform/Sensor	METOP-A Platform Name: Meteorological Operational Satellite - A (METOP-A) Orbit Period: 101.3 minutes Inclination Angle: 98.7 degrees Ascending Node: 2007-Jan-01 21:30:00 / ASCAT SENSOR Name: Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT) Swath Width: 1800 km Description: Dual fan beam C-band (5.25 GHz) vertically polarized scatterometer, providing measurements across two 550 km swaths, separated by a 700 km nadir blind region. This dual swath configuration allows ASCAT to provide more than twice the daily coverage of the ERS 1 and 2 predecessors with a coverage of nearly 70% of the ice-free oceans each day.
Project	Meteorological Operational (MetOp)
Data Provider	Creator: EUMETSAT/OSI SAF Release Place: KNMI, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute Release Date: 2018-Apr-23 Resource: http://projects.knmi.nl/scatterometer/ascat_cdr/
Keyword(s)	metop-a, metop, wind data, wind, ocean wind, wind speed, vector, vectors, ocean wind vector, ocean wind vectors, knmi, osi saf, eumetsat, climate, climate data record, cdr
Persistent ID	PODAAC-ASCDR-25X01

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PO.DAAC DRIVE	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/ascat/L2/metop_a/cdr/25km
OPENDAP	https://podaac-opendap.jpl.nasa.gov/opendap/allData/ascat/L2/metop_a/cdr/25km/
Format (Compression)	NETCDF (GZIP)
Web Service	https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ws/search/granule/?datasetId=PODAAC-ASCDR-12C01&apidoc (Search Granule)
Read Software
MATLAB	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/ascat/preview/L2/sw/MATLAB/ Matlab Data Reader
IDL	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/ascat/preview/L2/sw/IDL/ IDL Data Reader
Python	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/ascat/preview/L2/sw/Python/ Python Data Reader
R	https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/ascat/preview/L2/sw/R/ R Data Reader

User's Guide
CDR User Guide	https://projects.knmi.nl/scatterometer/publications/pdf/ascat_a_cdr_product_manual.pdf ASCAT Level 2 CDR User Guide
Project Materials
ASCAT L2 Winds Data Record Validation Report Version	https://projects.knmi.nl/scatterometer/publications/pdf/ascat_a_cdr_validation.pdf Verhoef, A., J. Vogelzang and A. Stoffelen, 2016: ASCAT L2 Winds Data Record Validation Report Version 1.2. Technical Note, SAF/OSI/CDOP2/KNMI/TEC/RP/239, EUMETSAT.
MetOp Mission Summary Page	https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Satellites/CurrentSatellites/Metop/index.html Mission and Instrument Overview
KNMI/OSI-SAF Publications	https://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/publications/ Reports and Publications
Scatterometry Training Material	https://www.knmi.nl/scatterometer/training_material/ Scatterometry Training Material from KNMI

Citation

EUMETSAT/OSI SAF. 2018. MetOp-A ASCAT Level 2 25-km Ocean Surface Wind Vector Climate Data Record. Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0006.

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Journal Reference

Verhoef, A., J. Vogelzang, J. Verspeek and A. Stoffelen, Long-Term Scatterometer Wind Climate Data Records, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth O, 2017, 10, 5, 2186-2194, doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2016.2615873.