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Oceansat-3 50 km wind vectors
Operational Near real time productNear-real time level 2 ocean wind vectors on a 50 km swath grid, based on the backscatter measurements of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Oceansat-3/OSCAT-3 scatterometer.
Identification
EUMETSAT collection ref. :
EO:EUM:DAT:0997
OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-113-b
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_NRT_2028
Id for archive (APNM) : OO3SW050
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : Oceansat-3 (EOS-06)/ OSCAT-3
Other input : NWP outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Central time : NA
Spatial coverage : Global
Spatial sampling : 50 km
Projection : Swath
File Format(s) : BUFR, NetCDF4
Characteristics & methods : Measurements of the wind direction and wind speed above the sea surface, obtained through the processing of scatterometer data originating from the scatterometer OSCAT-3 on ISRO's OceanSat-3 satellite.
Data Access
Credentials for access to OSI SAF tools
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Accuracy Requirements
Target accuracy : For winds below 25 m/s, better than 2 m/s in wind component Stdev with an absolute mean difference 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 (including assimilation in NWP models, nowcasting),
* Operational analyses and ocean models,
* Research or Environmental monitoring.
* Operational analyses and ocean models,
* Research or Environmental monitoring.
History
Authorised to be operational / released :
Declared operational / released since :
On EUMETCast since :
On EDC since :
On FTP server since :
First date :
Full series temporal coverage : 2024-onwards
Detailed history :
The product series is operational since 31/10/2024.
Licence/Attribution/Citation
Licence : CC BY 4.0
Attribution : You must include attribution to EUMETSAT OSI SAF
Recommended citation : EUMETSAT OSI SAF, Oceansat-3 50 km wind vectors (2024), OSI-113-b, doi: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_NRT_2028
References : BibteX entry
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