RapidScat Level 2B Climate Ocean Wind Vectors in 12.5km Footprints

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This dataset contains the RapidScat Level 2B 12.5km Version 1.0 Climate quality ocean surface wind vectors. The Level 2B wind vectors are binned on a 12.5 km Wind Vector Cell (WVC) grid and processed using the using the "full aperture" normalized radar cross-section (NRCS, a.k.a. Sigma-0) from the L1B dataset. RapidScat is a Ku-band dual beam circular rotating scatterometer retaining much of the same hardware and functionality of QuikSCAT, with exception of the antenna sub-system and digital interface to the International Space Station (ISS) Columbus module, which is where RapidScat is mounted. The NASA mission is officially referred to as ISS-RapidScat. Unlike QuikSCAT, ISS-RapidScat is not in sun-synchronous orbit, and flies at roughly half the altitude with a low inclination angle that restricts data coverage to the tropics and mid-latitude regions; the extent of latitudinal coverage stretches from approximately 61 degrees North to 61 degrees South. Furthermore, there is no consistent local time of day retrieval. This dataset is provided in a netCDF-3 file format that follows the netCDF-4 classic model (i.e., generated by the netCDF-4 API) and made available via Direct Download and OPeNDAP. For data access, please click on the "Data Access" tab above. This climate quality data set differs from the nominal "slice" L2B dataset as follows: 1) it uses full antenna footprint measurements (~20-km) without subdividing by range (~7-km) and 2) the absolute calibration has been modified for the two different low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) mode data sets: LowSNR1 14 August 2015 to 18 September 2015; LowSNR2 6 October 2015 to 7 February 2016. The above enhancements allow this dataset to provide consistent calibration across all SNR states. Low SNR periods and other key quality control (QC) issues are tracked and kept up-to-date in PO.DAAC Drive at https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/rapidscat/open/L1B/docs/revtime.csv. If you have any questions, please visit our user forums: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/forum/.

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Name Format Description Link
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FCitingPODAAC
5 https://winds.jpl.nasa.gov%2Fmissions%2FRapidScat%2F
5 http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov%2Frscat_images%2Fmonitor%2FRapidScat_Scheduled_Outages.txt
5 http://www.jpl.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2Ffact_sheets%2Fissrapidscat_factsheet.pdf
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Frapidscat%2Fopen%2FL1B%2Fdocs%2Frevtime.csv
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Frapidscat%2Fopen%2FL2B12%2Fdocs%2Frscat_l2b_user_guide_v1.pdf
5 https://directory.eoportal.org%2Fweb%2Feoportal%2Fsatellite-missions%2Fi%2Fiss-rapidscat
5 https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fpodaac-ops-cumulus-docs%2Frapidscat%2Fopen%2FL2B12%2Fclim_v1.0%2FREADME.txt
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fvirtual-directory%2Fcollections%2FC2491772108-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov%2Fsearch%2Fgranules%3Fp%3DC2491772108-POCLOUD
5 https://github.com%2Fpodaac%2Fdata-readers
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov%2FPodaac%2Fthumbnails%2FRSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V1.jpg
5 https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
5 https://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/RapidScat/
5 https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2491772108-POCLOUD
5 https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2491772108-POCLOUD
5 https://github.com/podaac/data-readers
33 rscat_l2b_user_guide_v1.pdf https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/rapidscat/open/L2B12/docs/rscat_l2b_user_guide_v1.pdf
5 https://directory.eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/i/iss-rapidscat
47 README.txt https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/rapidscat/open/L2B12/clim_v1.0/README.txt
47 RapidScat_Scheduled_Outages.txt http://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/rscat_images/monitor/RapidScat_Scheduled_Outages.txt
33 issrapidscat_factsheet.pdf http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/fact_sheets/issrapidscat_factsheet.pdf
8 revtime.csv https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/rapidscat/open/L1B/docs/revtime.csv
22 RSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V1.jpg https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/RSCAT_LEVEL_2B_OWV_CLIM_12_V1.jpg
0 The metadata's original source. https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2491772108-POCLOUD.iso19115

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