NASA JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center

nasa-podaac-ers-2_ifremer_l3_ow_mean_wind_fields

ERS-2 Level 3 Gridded Mean Wind Fields (IFREMER)

The European Remote Sensing Satellite generation 2 (ERS-2) Level 3 Mean Wind Fields dataset is derived from the ERS-2 scatterometer data and is produced and distributed by IFREMER/CERSAT. Weekly and monthly mean ocean surface wind vectors, wind stress, wind divergence, and stress curl fields are provided on a global 1x1 degree grid. Standard errors of each parameter are also computed and provided as complimentary gridded fields. An objective statistical interpolation is performed to reconstruct gap-filled and averaged synoptic fields from discrete observations over each time period. This dataset is part of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) package.

podaac.jpl.nasa.gov

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/ERS-2_IFREMER_L3_OW_MEAN_WIND_FIELDS

Identified by : ERS-2_IFREMER_L3_OW_MEAN_WIND_FIELDS

This dataset was released on February 05, 2011.

The time range for this dataset is March 25, 1996 to January 15, 2001 (23:59 PM).

The spatial range for this dataset is -79.5° to 79.5° latitude, and 0° to 360° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the active-microwave-instrumentation-image-mode instrument on the european-remote-sensing-satellite-2 platform.

Also known as :

• dataset ERS-2_IFREMER_L3_OW_MEAN_WIND_FIELDS (podaac lexicon)
• datasetId PODAAC-ERS2X-IMWF0 (podaac lexicon)