©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation
The QuikSCAT is a polar orbiting satellite with an 1800 km wide measurement swath on the earth's surface. Generally, this results in twice per day coverage over a given geographic region. This specialized microwave radar measures near-surface wind speed and direction under all weather and cloud conditions over Earth's oceans. Wind retrievals are done on a 25km x 25km spatial scale.
| Dataset Name | PI-Supplied Description | PI-Supplied Name |
|---|---|---|
| Gas transfer velocities (QuikSCAT normalized radar backscatter) from NOAA Ship Ronald H. Brown cruise RB-08-02 in the Southwest Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean near South Georgia Island in 2008 (SO_GasEx project) | An empirical relationship between normalized radar backscatter (sigma-naught) and mean square slopeis used in a field determined quadratic relationship between mean square slope and gas transfer velocity. QuikSCAT scatterometer sigma-naughts are obtained from a 13.4 GHz twin beam radar that scans thesurface in a circular motion at 18 rpm. Reflected signals are binned into 25 km wind vector cells with across-track width of 1,800 km at the satellite's nominal altitude of 803 km. | Quick Scatterometer |
©2020 Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office.