SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DEALIASED OCEAN WIND VECTORS (JPL-UCLA-AES)
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| DOI | 10.5067/SASSX-L3UCD |
| Short Name | UCLA_DEALIASED_SASS_L3 |
| Description | Contains dealiased ocean wind vector components (zonal and meridional) derived from the Seasat-A Scatterometer (SASS) provided on a global 1x1 degree grid. Dealiasing of the SASS data was achieved manually using ship observations in a joint effort between JPL, UCLA and AES. This data set underwent restoration in 1997. Data are provided in ASCII text files at six hour intervals. |
| Version | 1 |
| Dataset Type | OPEN |
| Measurement | OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > 10 METER OCEAN SURFACE WIND VELOCITY |
| Processing Level | 3 |
| Coverage | Region: Global Northernmost Latitude: 70 degrees Southernmost Latitude: -70 degrees Westernmost Longitude: 0 degrees Easternmost Longitude: 360 degrees Time Span: 1978-Jul-07 to 1978-Oct-10 |
| Resolution | Spatial Resolution: 1 degrees (Latitude) x 1 degrees (Longitude) Temporal Resolution: 6 Hour |
| Projection | Type: Gridded Detail: Ellipsoid: WGS 84 |
| Latency | hours |
| Platform/Sensor | SEASAT-A / Platform Name: SEASAT-A (SEASAT-A) Orbit Period: 100.7 minutes Inclination Angle: 108 degrees Ascending Node: 1978-Jul-07 00:00:00 SASS SENSOR Name: Seasat-A Scatterometer System (SASS) Swath Width: 1900 km Description: The Seasat-A Satellite Scatterometer (SASS) contains four dual-polarized (both vertical and horizontal) fan-beam radar antennas, which were designed to produce an X-shaped scanning pattern across Earth's surface. The SASS radar was designed to transmit at a frequency of 14.6 GHz (Ku-band). SASS provided 95% global coverage every 36 hours at a sampling footprint of approximately 50 km within a 1900 km-wide swath. SASS was designed to measure radar backscatter sensitive to wind speeds from 4-26 m s-1 referenced to 10 meters above the ocean surface. SASS was intended to be accurate to within 2 m s-1 or 10% (whichever is greater) of the observed wind speed and within 20¿ of the observed wind direction. |
| Project | SEASAT (SEASAT) |
| Data Provider | Creator: JPL/UCLA/AES Release Place: PO.DAAC Release Date: 1997-Apr-18 Resource: https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/pub/documents/dataset_docs/seasat_windcomp_jpl.html |
| Persistent ID | PODAAC-SASSX-L3UCD |
Questions related to this dataset? Contact podaac@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov
| PO.DAAC DRIVE | https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/allData/seasat/L3/sass_6hour_UCLA |
| Format (Compression) | ASCII (ZIP) |
| Web Service | https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/ws/search/granule/?datasetId=PODAAC-SASSX-L3UCD&apidoc (Search Granule) |
| Citation | JPL/UCLA/AES. 1997. SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DEALIASED OCEAN WIND VECTORS (JPL-UCLA-AES). Ver. 1. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at https://doi.org/10.5067/SASSX-L3UCD.
For more information see Data Citations and Acknowledgments.
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| Journal Reference | SEASAT-A Scatterometer Global Gridded Dealiased Wind Components User Guide. JPL/UCLA/AES. June 11, 1997. | |||||||
