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Oceansat-2 L2 25 km winds data record, release 2

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The OSCAT scatterometer onboard the Oceansat-2 satellite, launched in September 2009 by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), provided observations until February 2014. Reprocessed Oceansat-2 L2 25 km and 50 km winds Data Records have been created covering the period from December 2009 until February 2014, using the latest state-of-the-art wind retrieval algorithms. Scatterometer data have been collocated with ECMWF ERA-5 winds.

Identification
EUMETSAT collection ref. :

EO:EUM:DAT:0899

OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-153-c
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0018
Id for archive (APNM) : OR2OSW025
Licence/Attribution/Citation : CC BY 4.0 See below
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : Oceansat-2 scatterometer
Other input : ECMWF ERA5 re-analysis outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Temporal sampling : Once
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 : Swath sigma0’s and wind vectors.
Data Access

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Accuracy Requirements
Target accuracy : Better than 2 m/s in wind component std. dev. with an absolute mean difference of less than 0.5 m/s in wind speed on a monthly basis. Wind speed stability better than 0.1 m/s over the mission lifetime.
Verification/validation method : Triple collocation with ECMWF ERA5 re-analysis and buoys
Applications and users
Usage : * Reanalyses
* Ocean models, air-sea interaction
* Climate research, environmental monitoring
History
Authorised to be operational / released :
On EDC since :
First date :
Last date :
Full series temporal coverage : 2009-2014
Licence/Attribution/Citation
Licence : CC BY 4.0
Attribution : You must include attribution to EUMETSAT OSI SAF
Recommended citation : EUMETSAT OSI SAF, Oceansat-2 L2 25 km winds data record, release 2 (2023), OSI-153-c, doi: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0018
References : BibteX entry
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