SeaWinds on ADEOS-II Level 3 Gridded Ocean Wind Vectors (JPL)
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| DOI | 10.5067/SEAXX-L3X02 |
| Short Name | SEAWINDS_LEVEL_3_V2 |
| Description | The SeaWinds on ADEOS-II Level 3 ocean vector winds on a 0.25 degree grid contains daily data from ascending and descending passes; where adjacent satellite passes overlap, the most recent value overwrites the previous value for that particular wind vector cell. Wind vectors are accurate to within 2 m/s (vector speed) and 20 degrees (vector direction). Rain flags are provided for each wind vector cell to assist in identifying potential rain contamination. Wind vectors are set to a value of 0 when within 30 km of land/ice boundaries or where there is ambiguous or non-existent measurements available. This data utilizes the recalibrated model function called the QSCAT-1/F13 processing algorithm, adopted in July of 2006. |
| Version | 2 |
| Dataset Type | OPEN |
| Measurement | Oceans > Ocean Winds > Surface Winds > Ocean Surface Wind Vectors |
| Processing Level | 3 |
| Coverage | Region: Global Northernmost Latitude: 89.875 degrees Southernmost Latitude: -89.875 degrees Westernmost Longitude: 0 degrees Easternmost Longitude: 360 degrees Time Span: 2003-Apr-10 to 2003-Oct-24 |
| Resolution | Spatial Resolution: 0.25 degrees (Latitude) x 0.25 degrees (Longitude) Temporal Resolution: 12 Hour |
| Projection | Type: Gridded Detail: Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
| Latency | hours |
| Platform/Sensor | ADEOS-II / Platform Name: Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-II (ADEOS-II) Orbit Period: 101.05 minutes Inclination Angle: 98.62 degrees Ascending Node: 2003-Apr-09 22:33:33 SEAWINDS SENSOR Name: SeaWinds Scatterometer (SEAWINDS) Swath Width: 1800 km Description: SeaWinds is a Ku-band (13.4 GHz) Scatterometer which features a single circular scanning dish antenna to provide pencil-beam measurements, as opposed to the common fan beam design as seen with other spaceborne scatterometers. The pencil-beam design has several key advantages over the more common fan beam design: higher signal-to-noise ratio, smaller size, and superior coverage. The SeaWinds single antenna utilizes twin offset feeds, thus providing two pencil-beam footprint paths with an elliptical sampling footprint of approximately 25 km (in azimuth) by 37 km (in look/range direction); these pencil beams have opposing polarizations (i.e., vertical and horizontal), thus achieving dual-polarization. The SeaWinds instrument provides a full 1800 km-wide swath coverage (including the nadir region), which allows for a nominal daily measurement coverage of 90% over the ice-free oceans. |
| Project | SeaWinds on ADEOS-II (SEAWINDS) |
| Data Provider | Creator: SeaPAC Release Place: PO.DAAC Release Date: 2006-Jan-15 Resource: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/seawinds/L3/jpl/v2/docs/SWS_L3.pdf |
| Keyword(s) | wind data, wind, ocean wind, wind speed, vector, vectors, ocean wind vector, ocean wind vectors, seawinds, adeos-2, adeos-ii, scatterometer, gridded |
| Persistent ID | PODAAC-SEAXX-L3X02 |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
| Citation | SeaPAC. 2006. SeaWinds on ADEOS-II Level 3 Gridded Ocean Wind Vectors (JPL). Ver. 2. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SEAXX-L3X02.
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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| Journal Reference | Lungu, T., July 2006. SeaWinds Science Data Product User Manual. Version 2.0, JPL Document D-21551 - Version 2, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. | |||||||
