Ascat Scatterometer Wind Data Processing
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The Advanced scatterometer, ASCAT, on MetOp-A was launched on 19 October 2006 as the third wind scatterometer currently in space joining up with the ERS-2 and the SeaWinds scatterometers. Scatterometers measure the radar backscatter from wind-generated cm-size gravity-capillary waves and provide highresolution wind vector fields over the sea with high quality. In this paper we show progress in high resolution processing and its verification, and in processing closer to the coast.
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