Oceansat-2 50 km Winds
Discontinued Archived NRT product
Identification
Acronym : OSCAT50
EUMETSAT collection ref. :
EO:EUM:DAT:OCEANSAT:OSCAT50
OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-105
Id for archive (APNM) : NA
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : Oceansat-2/OSCAT
Other input : ECMWF outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Temporal sampling : Continuous
Timeliness :
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The timeliness is the time elapsing from the sensing time of the last contributing file to the product dissemination to users. It is similar to the latency.
3 h
Spatial coverage : Global
Spatial sampling : 50 km
Projection : Swath
File Format(s) : BUFR, NetCDF3
Characteristics & methods : Swath sigma0’s and wind vectors
Accuracy Requirements
Target accuracy : Better than 2 m/s in wind component Stdev with a bias of less than 0.5 m/s in wind speed on a monthly basis.
Verification/validation method : Triple collocation with NWP and buoys
Applications and users
Usage : * Operational Met Services
* Operational analyses and ocean models
* Research or Environmental monitoring
* Operational analyses and ocean models
* Research or Environmental monitoring
History
Last date :
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All OSCAT services are discontinued following an irrecoverable instrument failure on 20 February 2014. Oceansat-2 was launched in September 2009 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and failed shortly before the completion of the intended five year instrument lifespan. The OSCAT scatterometer on Oceansat-2 was ISRO's first active microwave payload.
Archived wind products from OSCAT are available at KNMI on request. Some wind data are also available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. OSI SAF OSCAT products are available in the EUMETSAT archive for the period September 2013 to February 2014.