The QuikSCAT nominal mission ended on November 23, 2009 due to problems with the
SeaWinds instrument antenna spinning mechanism. QuikSCAT was launched in 1999 and was
already operating 7 years beyond its design life.
A new version of the reprocessed SeaWinds L2 25 km and 50 km winds Climate Data Records (CDR) was
released in 2024. The records cover the full mission history from July 1999
until November 2009. Scatterometer data have been collocated with ECMWF ERA5
winds and scatterometer level 2 wind products have been created at 25-km
(doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0016) and 50-km
(doi:10.15770/EUM_SAF_OSI_0017) swath grids.
The reprocessed data, in BUFR and NetCDF format, are available online from the
EUMETSAT Data Centre after registration.
The QuikSCAT nominal mission ended on November 23, 2009 due to problems with the
SeaWinds instrument antenna spinning mechanism. QuikSCAT was launched in 1999 and was
already operating 7 years beyond its design life.
