ERS L2 25 km winds data record Licensed under CC BY 4.0 by EUMETSAT
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ERS L2 25 km winds data record

Released Climate product

Reprocessed ERS-1 and ERS-2 L2 25 km winds Climate Data Records (CDR) have been created covering the period from March 1992 until January 2001, using the latest state-of-the-art wind retrieval algorithms. Scatterometer data have been collocated with ECMWF ERA-Interim winds and scatterometer level 2 wind products have been created at 25 km swath grid. The reprocessed data are in BUFR and NetCDF format.

Identification
Acronym : REPERS
EUMETSAT collection ref. :

EO:EUM:DAT:ERS:OSI-152

OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-152
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0009
Id for archive (APNM) : OR1ERW025
Licence/Attribution/Citation : CC BY 4.0 See below
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : ERS-1/SCAT and ERS-2/SCAT
Other input : ECMWF outputs (wind, SST, landsea 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 : 25 km
Projection : Swath
File Format(s) : BUFR, NetCDF3
Characteristics & methods : wind vectors and ice probabilities, gridded wind vectors.
Data Access
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
Authorised to be operational / released :
Declared operational / released since :
First date :
Last date :
Full series temporal coverage : 1992-2001
Licence/Attribution/Citation
Licence : CC BY 4.0
Attribution : You must include attribution to EUMETSAT OSI SAF
Recommended citation : EUMETSAT OSI SAF, ERS L2 25 km winds data record 1992-2001 (v1.0, 2017), OSI-152, doi: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0009
References : BibteX entry
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