OSCAT L2 25 km Winds Data Record Release 1 - OceanSat

Abstract:
The Oceansat-2 Wind Product contains stress equivalent 10m winds (speed and direction) over the global oceans. The winds are obtained through the processing of reprocessed scatterometer backscatter data originating from the OSCAT instrument on the Oceansat-2 satellite.

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Metadata Information

General

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contact	see section contact (role: pointOfContact)
dateStamp	2021-09-30
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citation	title: OSCAT L2 25 km Winds Data Record Release 1 - OceanSat dates: creation: 2018-09-07 fileIdentifier: 10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0010 (CodeSpace: http://datacite.org) citedResponsibleParty: see section contact (role: distributor) presentationForm: otherCitationDetails:
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Contact

Role: pointOfContact

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individualName	EUMETSAT SAF on Ocean and Sea Ice
organisationName	OSI SAF
contactInfo	address: Avenue de Lorraine, BP 50747 22307Lannion Cedex France email: osi-saf.manager@meteo.fr

Role: distributor

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contactInfo	address: EUMETSAT Allee 1 64295Darmstadt Germany phone: +49(0)6151-807 3660/3770 email: ops@eumetsat.int onlineResource: http://www.eumetsat.inti

Role: originator

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organisationName	OSI SAF
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