Source/sensor: Seasat SASS

Coverage: 7 July 1978-10 October 1978, global

Abstract:
This is one of a series of reprocessed data products that was produced from the Seasat-A satellite scatterometer (SASS) data. Three months of vector wind observations are used to construct gridded fields of monthly average wind stress over the global oceans. SASS observations of global near-surface winds span the period 7 July to 10 October 1978. The 96-day mission was divided into three periods of approximately one-month duration. The spatial resoultion is 2.5 degrees in latitude and longitude. The vector average wind stress are stored in dynes per centimeter squared (dyn/cm²). A subroutine to read the data is included. A Users Guide exists for this product. Data are provided in ASCII and are available via anonymous FTP to podaac.jpl.nasa.gov in the pub/ocean_wind/seasat/wind/monthly_Chelton directory or on 8mm or 4mm tape using LINUX Tar. The data set was restored in 1996.

Data Set Volume: 1 MB
Smallest order: Entire data set
Std. product: Data set via FTP.
Formats: Data are provided in ASCII