Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute; Ministery Of Infrastructure And The Environment

Data products
Archived Wind and Stress Products, Climate Data Records
Several long-term time sets of scatterometer wind data are available from various archives. Some of those are archived near real time data, others are newly generated reprocessed Climate Data Records. Data sets not listed here may be available on request.
ERS-1 and ERS-2 scatterometer (1992 - 2001)
The reprocessed ERS-1 and ERS-2 L2 25 km-winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0009), in BUFR and NetCDF format, are available from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. Click here for more information.
QuikSCAT/SeaWinds (1999 - 2009)
The reprocessed SeaWinds L2 25-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0016) and 50-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0017), in BUFR and NetCDF format, are available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. Click here for more information.
Metop/ASCAT (2007 - present)
The reprocessed Metop-A ASCAT L2 winds on 25-km (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0006) and 12.5 km (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0007) swath grids, in BUFR and NetCDF format (2007 - 2014), are available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. Click here for more information.

The archived near real time OSI SAF ASCAT wind products from Metop-A, Metop-B, and Metop-C in BUFR and NetCDF format are available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. You can click on the link 'Online Ordering Application' on this page. After registration and login, choose the Search Type 'SAF' and you will find the ASCAT winds. The date and region of interest can be chosen easily.

The OSI SAF ASCAT wind products in NetCDF format are also available online from PO.DAAC.
Oceansat-2/OSCAT (2009 - 2014)
The reprocessed OSCAT L2 25-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0018) and 50-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0019), in BUFR and NetCDF format, are available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. Click here for more information.
ISS/RapidScat (2014 - 2016)
The reprocessed RapidScat L2 25-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0020) and 50-km winds (doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0021), in BUFR and NetCDF format, are available online from the EUMETSAT Data Centre. Click here for more information.
Level 3 gridded wind data
Level 3 data on a regular lat/lon grid are available online from the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service (CMEMS). These products are based on the OSI SAF swath level 2 wind data. Currently, ASCAT and OSCAT level 3 wind data can be retrieved from CMEMS. Choose 'Global Ocean' and 'Winds' in the catalogue.
Further information
Please contact the KNMI scatterometer team.
Near real time Wind Products
OSI SAF Wind Climate Data Records
Discontinued Wind Products
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