RapidScat L2 25 km winds data record, release 1
Released Climate productThe RapidScat scatterometer onboard the International Space Station (ISS) provided observations from 3 October 2014 - 19 August 2016. Reprocessed RapidScat L2 25 km and 50 km winds Data Records have been created, using the Pencil Beam Wind Processor (PenWP) with RapidScat level 1b data from the NASA JPL PO.DAAC and ERA5 re-analysis outputs from ECMWF.
Identification
OSI SAF producer : Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Identifier : OSI-159-a
Digital object identifier (DOI) 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0020
Acronym for EDC (APNM) : OR1RSW025
Citation : See at bottom
Characteristics
Processing level : L2
Satellite input : RapidScat Scatterometer on ISS
Other input : ECMWF ERA5 re-analysis outputs (wind, SST, land-sea mask)
Temporal sampling : Once
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.
NA
Spatial coverage : Global
Spatial sampling : 25 km
Projection : Swath
File Formats : EDC (BUFR), EDC (NetCDF3)
Characteristics & methods : Swath sigma0’s and wind vectors.
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
* 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 : 2014-2016
Citation
Citation : OSI SAF RapidScat L2 25 km winds data record, release 1 (2023), OSI-159-a, doi: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0020. EUMETSAT Ocean and Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility. Data extracted from [distributor/distribution mean]: ([extracted period],) ([extracted domains],) accessed [download date]
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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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