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NSIDC-0613

Scatterometer Climate Record Pathfinder Data, Version 1

This data set contains mean normalized backscatter coefficient (sigma-naught); backscatter variance; and other associated data files from Seasat SASS carrying a Ku-band scatterometer (1978), European Space Agency (ESA) Earth Remote Sensing (ERS) -1 and -2 missions carrying a C-band scatterometer (1992-2001), the NASA Scatterometer (NSCAT) mission (1996-1997), SeaWinds on QuikSCAT (1999-2009), SeaWinds on ADEOS-II/Midori2 (2003), and the ESA Advanced scatterometer (ASCAT) (2009+). Global, overlapping swath data were accumulated over a fixed interval of time. The data were then gridded, binned, and averaged, before it was processed using the Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR) and SIR w/filtering algorithms developed at Brigham Young University.

Geographic Coverage

Spatial Coverage:
  • N: 90, S: -90, E: 180, W: -180

Spatial Resolution: Not Specified
Temporal Coverage:
  • 1 January 1978
Temporal Resolution: Not specified
Parameter(s):
  • Microwave > Brightness Temperature
  • Radar > Radar Backscatter
Platform(s) ADEOS-I, ERS-1, ERS-2, QUIKSCAT, SEASAT
Sensor(s): ERS WIND SCATTEROMETER, NSCAT, SASS, SEAWINDS
Data Format(s): Not specified
Version: V1
Data Contributor(s): Mark Drinkwater, David Long, Ben Holt, Cheryl Bertoia
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