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CASIX TOPEX: kriged monthly mean ocean circulation data
TOPography EXperiment (TOPEX) for ocean circulation (otherwise known as Poseidon) was launched on August 10, 1992 and was a joint satellite mission between NASA, the U.S. space agency, and CNES, the French space agency, to map ocean surface topography. The first major oceanographic research vessel to sail into space, TOPEX/Poseidon helped revolutionise oceanography by proving the value of satellite ocean observations.
This dataset contains monthly means on a 1x1 latitude/longitude grid for 12 years (1993-2004). The data contains the following parameters: wind speed, squared wind speed, cubed wind speed, wind speed * significant wave height, significant wave height, 1/sigma0(Ku) and gas transfer velocity. TOPEX/Poseidon was a joint mission from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the U.S. space agency and the French space agency.
The dataset was produced by Fangohr, S. and D.K. Woolf of SOCS, as part of the NERC programme's Centre for observation of Air-Sea Interactions and FluXes (CASIX) and National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO).
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-10-18T23:35:06
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2007-10-18T23:35:06
- Identifier
- NERC Earth Observation Data Centre (NEODC) / 8a846281c530e892e01bfb43e96f439b
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned
- Update scope
- dataset
- Keywords
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- TOPEX
- ocean
- satellite
- marine
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- orthoimagery
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2004-12-31T00:00:00
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Data are netCDF formatted
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Data are netCDF formatted
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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DOWNLOAD
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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These data were provided to NEODC in netCDF format by Susanne Fangohr (Southampton) as an output from the NERC CASIX Centre of Excellence in June 2006.
The files were slightly modified by Victoria Jay, NEODC, 2009-10-02 (units of longitude and latitude changed from degrees to degrees_east and degrees_north)
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8a846281c530e892e01bfb43e96f439b XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Parent identifier
- CASIX TOPEX: high-resolution gridded monthly means of surface marine data 378c3e773d87e42b30ff10379143eb4c
- Resource type
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-06-30T00:09:37
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
