NASA
NASA/JPL/QUIKSCAT
The objectives of QuikSCAT and the website: 1. Acquire all-weather, high-resolution measurements of near-surface winds over global oceans. 2. Determine atmospheric forcing, ocean response, and air-sea interaction mechanisms on various spatial and temporal scales. 3. Combine wind data with measurements from scientific instruments in other disciplines to help us better understand the mechanisms of global climate change and weather patterns. 4. Study both annual and semi-annual rain forest vegetation changes. 5. Study daily/seasonal sea ice edge movement and Arctic/Antarctic ice pack changes. Website: http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/quikscat/ [Summary provided by NASA.]