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FOREWORD
The volume 1 of the MWF product manual presents objectively analysed fields of surface wind
parameters. These gridded wind fields, referred as MWF (Mean Wind Fields) product, are
computed from the individual observations provided by the AMI-Wind and NSCAT scatterometers
onboard respectively ERS-1/ERS-2 and ADEOS, and are analysed on one degree by one degree
global grids over various averaging periods. The data, the method of analysis, the geophysical
parameters and all information to read the analysed wind fields are described, in some details, in
this manual. Mean wind fields computed from SeaWinds onboard QuikSCAT on 0.5 x 0.5 degree
grids are presented in volume 2 of this manual.
This work was performed and funded by IFREMER / CERSAT. We request that you furnish us
with a copy of any publication employing these data, and that the source of the data be
acknowledged in the publication. As always, we welcome your suggestions and would welcome a
visit, here at CERSAT whenever your travels allow it.
We thank the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Centre (JPL/PO.DAAC) for
distributing the NSCAT NS2.0 raw data, from which the NSCAT gridded fields were computed.
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