Ocean Sciences






AGU Fall Meeting

9th ESDWG Conference

Altimetry for Oceans & Hydrology

4th Coastal Altimetry Workshop.
The image depicts the wind field associated with Hurricane Katrina on August 28, 2005, shortly before making landfall along the southeastern Louisiana coastline. This image was generated by using near-real-time (NRT) QuikSCAT swath data. The swath data was specially processed to generate an "ultra-high" resolution wind product, where each pixel has a 2.5 km spacing.
The image shows a global daily SST analysis for March 11, 2007 from the Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis Project(OSTIA) product. The SST is a blended product derived from infrared instruments such as AATSR and AVHRR, and microwave instruments such as AMSR-E and TMI.
Data is distributed through the GHRSST-PP Global Data Assembly Center(GDAC) in conjunction with the National Centre for Ocean Forecasting(NCOF) and the United Kingdom Meteorological Office(UK Met Office).