Climate Center Florida Consortium S.E. Regional Assess. Superb spatial and temporal resolution, as well as relative ease of use, allow the study of surface wind and stresses on remarkable scales. The base format for the observations is cells across the satellites orbital track. Within the swaths, the resolution is approximately 25 km. For the study of phenomena with scales larger than the swath with, it is more convenient to work with data gridded in terms of longitude and latitude.
Retained fields are wind speed, wind direction, time, latitude, and longitude.
The scatterometer winds are calibrated to a height of 10 m . The data sets are also resorted from the original orbit by orbit organization, to daily observations. There is no modification of the data. The goal is to provide essential wind data in a more user-friendly format. The data set should be considered research quality.