Observing oceans from space

The OSI SAF develops, processes and distributes, in near real-time, products related to key parameters of the ocean-atmosphere interface. The OSI SAF also offers climatological data records.

The OSI SAF team focuses on sea surface winds, sea and sea ice surface temperature, radiative fluxes : downward longwave irradiance and surface solar irradiance, sea ice concentration, edge, type, emissivity, drift.

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The OSI SAF has three operational processing centers. The wind processing is performed at KNMI in De Bilt, Netherlands. The sea ice processing is performed at the High Latitude processing facility, operated jointly by the Norwegian and Danish Meteorological Institutes, respectively in Oslo and Copenhagen. The Low and Mid-Latitude (LML) processing facility, processing sea surface temperature and radiative fluxes, is operated by Météo-France in Lannion and by Ifremer in Plouzané.

 

 

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Scientific publications about OSI SAF products

  • Grieco et al. / 2022

    Grieco, G., A. Stoffelen, A. Verhoef, J. Vogelzang and M. Portabella, Analysis of Data-Derived SeaWinds Normalized Radar Cross-Section Noise Remote Sens., 2022, 14, 21, 5444, doi:10.3390/rs14215444.

  • 2022 / Owlad et al. / Wind

    Elaheh Owlad, Ad Stoffelen, Parvin Ghafarian, Siavash Gholami, Wind field and gust climatology of the Persian Gulf during 1988–2010 using in-situ, reanalysis and satellite sea surface winds, Regional Studies in Marine Science, Volume 52, 2022, 102255, ISSN 2352-4855, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2022.102255.

  • 2022 / King et al. / Wind

    King, Gregory P., Marcos Portabella, Wenming Lin, and Ad Stoffelen. 2022. "Correlating Extremes in Wind Divergence with Extremes in Rain over the Tropical Atlantic" Remote Sensing 14, no. 5: 1147. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14051147

  • 2022 / Ni et al. / Wind

    Ni, W., Stoffelen, A. & Ren, K. Hurricane eye morphology extraction from SAR images by texture analysis. Front. Earth Sci. 16, 190–205 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-021-0886-9

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