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nasa-podaac-nscat_level_1-7_v2

NSCAT Level 1.7 SDR, Sigma-0 Cells

The NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) Level 1.7 ocean sigma-0 referenced to 50 km wind vector cells (WVC) contains daily backscatter (sigma-0) data from ascending and descending passes. Rain flagging information is not included. Data is flagged where measurements are either missing, ambiguous, or contaminated by land/sea ice. This is the most up-to-date version, which designates the final phase of calibration, validation and science data processing, which was completed in November of 1998, on behalf of the JPL NSCAT Project; re-processing had only minor impacts on the Level 1.7 data.

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http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/NSCAT_LEVEL_1.7_V2

Identified by : NSCAT_LEVEL_1.7_V2

This dataset was released on January 21, 2011.

The time range for this dataset is September 15, 1996 (03:04 AM) to June 29, 1997 (22:32 PM).

The spatial range for this dataset is -90° to 90° latitude, and 0° to 360° longitude. map (center)

This dataset uses data from an instance of the nasa-scatterometer instrument on the advanced-earth-observing-satellite platform.

Also known as :

• dataset NSCAT_LEVEL_1.7_V2 (podaac lexicon)