Metop-A ASCAT L2 12.5 km winds data record Licensed under CC BY 4.0 by EUMETSAT
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Metop-A ASCAT L2 12.5 km winds data record

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Reprocessed Metop-A ASCAT L2 12.5 km winds (coastal winds) Data Records created in 2016 and covering the first part of Metop-A mission from January 2007 until December 2014 (a second release of this product will cover the full mission history). Scatterometer data have been collocated with ECMWF ERA-Interim winds.

Identification
Acronym : REPASC12+
Product navigator reference :

EO:EUM:DAT:METOP:OSI-150-B

OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-150-b
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0007
Acronym for EDC (APNM) : OR1ASWC12
License/Attribution : See at bottom
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : EUMETSAT Secretariat reprocessed Metop-A ASCAT L1b
Other input : ECMWF outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Temporal sampling : Continuous
Timeliness : ? 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. NA
Spatial coverage : Global
Spatial sampling : 12.5 km
Projection : Swath
File Formats : EDC (BUFR), EDC (NetCDF3)
Characteristics & methods : Swath sigma0’s, wind vectors and ice probabilities, gridded wind vectors
Data Access

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https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/

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Accuracy Requirements
Target accuracy : 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 : * Reanalyses
* Ocean models, air-sea interaction
* Climate research, environmental monitoring
History
On EDC since :
First date :
Last date :
Full series temporal coverage : 2007-2014
License/Attribution
License/Attribution : OSI SAF Metop-A ASCAT L2 12.5 km winds data record 2007-2014 (v1.0, 2016), OSI-150-b, doi: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0007. 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…
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