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nasa-podaac-seawinds_level_2b_v2

SeaWinds on ADEOS-II Level 2B Ocean Wind Vectors in 25 Km Swath Grid

This dataset contains Level 2B science-quality ocean surface wind vector retrievals from the SeaWinds on ADEOS-II scatterometer. The retrievals are provided on a non-uniform grid within the swath at 25 km pixel resolution. Each L2B file corresponds to a specific orbital revolution (rev) number, which begins at the southernmost point of the ascending orbit. The granule metadata is consistent with the QuikSCAT L2B dataset, with exception of the amsr_rain_indicator provided by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR) instrument aboard the ADEOS-II spacecraft. Also, the wvc_quality_flag utilizes bits 2-6 for AMSR-related data quality assessment; these bits are left empty in the QuikSCAT L2B wvc_quality_flag variable. An ASCII inline quality report (Q2B) has been generated for each L2B file; each Q2B file provides statistics of various quality elements pertaining to the processing of a specific L2B file. This is the official dataset produced by the QuikSCAT Project through the SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center (SeaPAC).

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Identified by : SEAWINDS_LEVEL_2B_V2

This dataset was released on January 21, 2011.

The time range for this dataset is April 10, 2003 (00:08 AM) to October 24, 2003 (20:01 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 seawinds instrument on the advanced-earth-observing-satellite-ii platform.

Also known as :

• datasetId PODAAC-SEA25-L2B02 (podaac lexicon)
• dataset SEAWINDS_LEVEL_2B_V2 (podaac lexicon)