HY-2D 50 km wind vectors
Pre-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 Chinese National Satellite Ocean Application Service (NSOAS) HY-2D/HSCAT scatterometer.
Identification
Acronym : HY2D50
Product navigator reference :
EO:EUM:DAT:0891
OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-116-b
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_NRT_2025
Acronym for EDC (APNM) : OHDSW050
Citation : See at bottom
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : HY-2D/ HSCAT
Other input : NWP outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Central time : NA
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.
25% of the data is available within 3 hours
Spatial coverage : Global
Spatial sampling : 50 km
Projection : Swath
File Formats : WIND FTP Server (BUFR), WIND FTP Server (NetCDF3), EDC (BUFR), EDC (NetCDF3), EUMETCast (BUFR)
Characteristics & methods : Measurements of the wind direction and wind speed above the sea surface, obtained through the processing of scatterometer data originating from the HSCAT instrument on NSOAS's Hai Yang 2D China's HaiYang-2D satellite.
Data Access
Credentials for access to OSI SAF tools
For the FTP access, you need credentials which are provided on request, after registration on OSI SAF web site.
OSI SAF FTP (last 3 days)
ftp://ftppro.knmi.nl/
Directory: hy2d
EUMETSAT Multicast
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 :
On EUMETCast since :
On EDC since :
On FTP server since :
Expected date for operational/released :
First date :
Citation
Citation : OSI SAF HY-2D 50 km wind vectors 2023-onwards, OSI-116-b. EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility. Data extracted from [distributor/distribution mean]: ([extracted period],) ([extracted domains],) accessed [download date]
The content within square brackets "[…]" is to be replaced with whatever distributor, period, domain or download date is relevant to the data being used. The "extracted period" and "extracted domains" are only needed if a subset of the data is being used.
Suggestions for "distributor/distribution mean": OSI SAF FTP server/the EUMETSAT Data Centre/EUMETCast/name and URL of a redistributor…
The content within square brackets "[…]" is to be replaced with whatever distributor, period, domain or download date is relevant to the data being used. The "extracted period" and "extracted domains" are only needed if a subset of the data is being used.
Suggestions for "distributor/distribution mean": OSI SAF FTP server/the EUMETSAT Data Centre/EUMETCast/name and URL of a redistributor…
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Note: Timeliness may improve depending on the number of data downloads through the ground station in Finland (or other polar ground stations).