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Sentinel-1 A, B and C satellites are part of Europe's Copernicus Earth Observation program and carry identical C-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) instruments. This dataset contains regularly gridded (0.01 x 0.01 deg) daily 10m neutral stability wind speed and direction derived from Sentinel-1 SARs in the wider Australian nearshore regions. In these regions, the satellites normally operate in interferometric wide (IW) swath mode. The winds are derived using a consistent geophysical model function (gmf), CMOD5N, and variational Bayesian inversion approach as proposed in Portabella et al. (2002) and Sentinel-1 Ocean wind (owi) algorithm definition document. The input SAR and model (ECMWF) data used in the inversion are sourced from owi Level-2 product, and the resulting derived winds are approximately at 1km horizontal spatial resolution as in the source product. Wind speeds are also calibrated against Metop-A and B scatterometer wind database of Ribal and Young, 2020 (JTECH).For each day, all available derived wind field swaths (available as separate wind product: IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - Surface Waves Sub-Facility - SAR wind - Delayed mode data) are combined and interpolated to a nominal 0.01 x 0.01-degree regular grid. The final data are thus arranged in a rectilinear grid with dimensions defined by TIME, LATITUDE and LONGITUDE.
The data represented by this record, are presented in delayed mode.
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CreditAustralia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
Created: 23 08 2023
Data time period: 2017-10-24
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(Website of the IMOS Surface Waves Sub-Facility)
url :
http://imos.org.au/facilities/srs/surface-waves/![]()
(Link to Ribal and Young, 2020 (JTECH))
doi :
https://doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-19-0119.1![]()
(Link to Khan et al., 2023 (Data Descriptor Paper))
doi :
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02046-w![]()
(NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog)
(Files via Amazon Web Services S3 storage)
url :
https://data.aodn.org.au/?prefix=IMOS/SRS/Surface-Waves/SAR_Wind/DELAYED/GRIDDED/![]()
(View and download data though the AODN Portal)
url :
https://portal.aodn.org.au/search?uuid=f8cefb80-44a8-4187-8005-7e34d6ef5d6f![]()
(Access to Jupyter notebook)
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