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High-resolution, calibrated and validated Synthetic Aperture Radar ocean surface wind data around Australia

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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The dataset consists of ocean surface wind speed and direction at 10m height and 1 km spatial resolution around the wider Australian coastal areas, spanning 4 years (2017 to 2021) of measurements from Sentinel-1 A and B imaging Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) platforms. The winds have been derived using a consistent SAR wind retrieval algorithm, processing the full Sentinel-1 archive in this region. The data have been calibrated against Metop-A/B Scatterometer buoy-calibrated, wind measurements and examined for potential changes in calibration over the duration of the data. The calibrated data are further validated by comparisons against independent Altimeter (Cryosat-2, Jason-2, Jason-3, and SARAL) wind speeds. The ongoing IMOS (Integrated Marine Observing System) Surface Waves Sub-Facility SAR wind database (delayed mode data) is available through the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) Portal (https://portal.aodn.org.au/search?uuid=b02b929f-2caf-45d4-ac60-d4632b7ca0ca), the main repository for marine data in Australia. The data represented by this metadata record is a snapshot of the database at the time of this publication (November 2022), and has been assigned a DOI and will be maintained in perpetuity by the AODN.

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Title High-resolution, calibrated and validated Synthetic Aperture Radar ocean surface wind data around Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f21d64dc-1304-4d1e-9a0c-70f2fab4df98
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
salmansaeed.khan@csiro.au
Reference Period 19/06/2025
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "High-resolution, calibrated and validated Synthetic Aperture Radar ocean surface wind data around Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/high-resolution-calibrated-and-validated-synthetic-aperture-radar-ocean-surface-wind-data-aroun