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NASA/JPL/SeaPAC  

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  • The SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center hosts information pertaining to four Earth-orbiting missions, both current and past. Each mission was tasked to measure ocean winds from space using scatterometry. A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor which measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth from an aircraft or a satellite. (Go to Scatterometry to learn more about scatterometers.) By measuring global sea-surface wind speed and direction, ocean scatterometer data can help meteorologists more accurately predict the marine phenomena that affect human life on a daily basis. (en)

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  • 2020-08-24 09:32:20.0 [tstevens] Insert Concept add broader relation (NASA/JPL/SeaPAC [c27601df-cabf-4eac-bc81-e8a03aecf1e7,560620] - NASA [4fd0aa9d-1a80-4dde-8452-c69b5c4d08cc,533825]);
  • 2020-08-24 09:34:44.0 [tstevens] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA language code: en); insert Definition (id: null text: The SeaWinds Processing and Analysis Center hosts information pertaining to four Earth-orbiting missions, both current and past. Each mission was tasked to measure ocean winds from space using scatterometry. A scatterometer is a microwave radar sensor which measures the reflection (or scattering effect) produced while scanning the surface of the Earth from an aircraft or a satellite. (Go to Scatterometry to learn more about scatterometers.) By measuring global sea-surface wind speed and direction, ocean scatterometer data can help meteorologists more accurately predict the marine phenomena that affect human life on a daily basis. language code: en); insert Resource (id: null type: provider url: https://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/c27601df-cabf-4eac-bc81-e8a03aecf1e7

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