Ocean Science

Ocean Winds

Surface winds over oceans are required for several operational, oceanographic, atmospheric and climatological studies. OSCAT 2-days Wind Composites have been generated by interpolating OSCAT level-3 wind fields data using Variational Inverse Method (VIM) inbuilt in Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) software. These products have their utility in daily weather and modeling activities. The output products consist of zonal and meridional wind components with their respective error fields as computed by DIVA.

Daily OSCAT Ocean winds at 25Km, 50Km grid data from 2010-2014, daily SCATSAT Ocean winds at 25Km, 50Km grid data from 2016-18 are hosted on Bhuvan-Ocean Winds .

Select NICES Project - Terrestrial Sciences –Ocean winds, List and view the data of the selected time period. Technical Document(hyper link :OSCAT Ocean winds 50Km, OSCAT Ocean winds 25Km)