The NSCAT projects swath data sets are sub-sampled to remove data fields that are less likely to be used (e.g., most of the header, unselected ambiguities, and engineering data). Retained fields are wind speed, wind direction, time, latitude, and longitude. The scatterometer winds are calibrated to a height of 10 m. The data sets are also regrouped from the original 'one file per orbit' to 'one file per day'. There is no modification of the data. The goal is to provide essential data in a more user-friendly format. The data set should be considered research quality.

NetCDF libraries are required to access the data, and can be obtained from UNIDATA.

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 Date Ranges Available: September 15, 1996 - June 29, 1997

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Year 19961997

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Year 19961997

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Year	Month	Day	Hour
19961997	SeptemberOctoberNovemberDecember	15161718192021222324252627282930	00061218