GOES-16 cloud-motion wind and ASCAT ocean surface wind data for the article "Evolution of an atmospheric Kármán vortex street from high-resolution satellite winds: Guadalupe Island case study"

This repository contains GOES-16 cloud-motion winds and ASCAT ocean surface winds derived for and analysed in the article "Evolution of an atmospheric Kármán vortex street from high-resolution satellite winds: Guadalupe Island case study". <strong>GOES-16 Local Cloud-Motion Vectors</strong> Data in two ASCII text files: <em>raw5x5g16b2_2018d129_1437z_2232z_north.txt</em> and <em>raw5x5g16b2_2018d129_1437z_2232z_south.txt</em>, with the former containing data for the upper half and the latter for the lower half of the study domain between ~26^oN and ~29.5^oN. Both files include 96 records, each record corresponding to a specific 5-minute time interval between 14:37 UTC and 22:32 UTC on 9 May 2018—9 May is day of year 129. The start and end times are given at the beginning of each record in YYYYDDDHHMM format, where Y is year, D is day of year, H is hour, and M is minute. For example, the first record contains data between 14:37 UTC and 14:42 UTC, as indicated by the start and end times of 20181291437 and 20181291442. Then follows the four column headers LAT LON SPD DIR, corresponding to latitude (degree), longitude (degree), wind speed (m/s), and wind direction (meteorological convention, degree north), respectively—note that no cloud-top height/pressure value was calculated for the wind vectors. Each subsequent line is a single GOES-16 local cloud-motion vector, derived from 5x5-pixel band 2 (0.64 micron visible red band) image templates, which represent an area of ~2.5x2.5 km² at the subsatellite point. <strong>MODIS–GOES-16 3D Cloud-Motion Vectors</strong> Data in two netCDF files: <em>MOD.A2018129.1810-75_ABI_CONUS_band_02_goes16.nc</em> and <em>MYD.A2018129.2120-75_ABI_CONUS_band_02_goes16.nc</em>, which correspond to the MODIS Terra and MODIS Aqua overpasses, respectively. These joint MODIS–GOES-16 wind retrievals were derived using ~8x8 km² red band image templates sampled every 2 km. The data files are self-explanatory, but the variables "lat", "lon", "V_3D", and "H_3D" provide the latitude (degree), longitude (degree), the [east-west, north-south] wind components (m/s), and the geometric stereo height (m) for each wind retrieval. <strong>ASCAT Ocean Surface Wind Vectors</strong> Data in two netCDF files: <em>ascat_20180509_030000_metopa_59945_srv_o_063_ovw_new.nc</em> and <em>ascat_20180509_040000_metopb_29259_srv_o_063_ovw_new.nc</em>, which correspond to the MetOp-A and MetOp-B overpasses, respectively. These ASCAT ocean surface retrievals are stress-equivalent winds at 10 m height, given on a 6.25-km grid. The data files are self-explanatory, but the variables "lat", "lon", "wind_speed", and "wind_dir" provide the latitude (degree), longitude (degree), the wind speed (m/s), and the wind direction (oceanographic convention, degree north) for each wind retrieval. <em>Note that wind direction follows the oceanographic convention and refers to the direction towards which the wind blows (equivalent to meteorological wind direction minus 180^o)!</em>