ERS-1 Level 3 Gridded Mean Wind Fields (IFREMER)
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| DOI | Not Registered |
| Short Name | ERS-1_IFREMER_L3_OW_MEAN_WIND_FIELDS |
| Description | The European Remote Sensing Satellite generation 1 (ERS-1) Level 3 Mean Wind Fields dataset is derived from the ERS-1 scatterometer data and is produced and distributed by IFREMER/CERSAT. Weekly and monthly mean ocean surface wind vectors, wind stress, wind divergence, and stress curl fields are provided on a global 1x1 degree grid. Standard errors of each parameter are also computed and provided as complimentary gridded fields. An objective statistical interpolation is performed to reconstruct gap-filled and averaged synoptic fields from discrete observations over each time period. This dataset is part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) package. |
| Version | 1 |
| Dataset Type | REMOTE |
| Measurement | Oceans > Ocean Winds > Vorticity > Ocean Wind Stress Curl Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface Winds > Ocean Surface Wind Vectors Oceans > Ocean Winds > Stress > Ocean Surface Wind Stress Vectors Oceans > Ocean Winds > Convergence/Divergence > Ocean Surface Wind Divergence |
| Processing Level | 3 |
| Coverage | Region: Global Northernmost Latitude: 79.5 degrees Southernmost Latitude: -79.5 degrees Westernmost Longitude: 0 degrees Easternmost Longitude: 360 degrees Time Span: 1991-Aug-05 to 1996-Jun-02 |
| Resolution | Spatial Resolution: 1 degrees (Latitude) x 1 degrees (Longitude) Temporal Resolution: 1 Week |
| Projection | Type: Gridded Detail: Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
| Latency | hours |
| Platform/Sensor | ERS-1 / Platform Name: European Remote Sensing Satellite-1 (ERS-1) Orbit Period: 100.3 minutes Inclination Angle: 98.5 degrees Ascending Node: 1970-Jan-01 00:00:00 AMI SENSOR Name: Active Microwave Instrument (AMI) Swath Width: 500 km Description: This is a 5.4 GHz (C-band) microwave scatterometer which provides ocean surface wind and stress vectors over the global ice free oceans, operating on the European Remote Sensing Satellites (ERS-1,2). |
| Project | The European Remote Sensing Satellite Project, Series 1 (ERS-1) |
| Data Provider | Creator: IFREMER/CERSAT Release Place: PO.DAAC Release Date: 2005-Jun-09 Resource: ftp://anonymous@ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/cersat/documentation/gridded/mwf-ers/mwf_vol1.pdf |
| Keyword(s) | wind data, wind, ocean wind, wind speed, vector, vectors, ocean wind vector, ocean wind vectors, ers, ers-1, scatterometer, gridded, ifremer, cersat, mwf, mean wind fields, bentamy |
| Persistent ID | PODAAC-ERS13-IMWF0 |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
| Direct Access | |
| REMOTE-FTP | ftp://anonymous@ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/cersat/products/gridded/mwf-ers1 |
| Format (Compression) | NETCDF (ZIP) |
| Citation | IFREMER/CERSAT. 2005. ERS-1 Level 3 Gridded Mean Wind Fields (IFREMER). Ver. 1. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD].
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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| Journal Reference | Bentamy A., P. Queffeulou, Y. Quilfen and K. Katsaros, 1999 : Ocean surface wind fields estimated from satellite active and passive microwave instruments, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 37, 2469-2486. | |||||||
