RapidScat (ISS) 25 km winds Release 1 - Reprocessed

Reprocessed stress-equivalent 10m winds over the global oceans obtained from the ISS/RapidScat scatterometer on a 25 km swath grid. The complete data record from the Ku-band scatterometer RapidScat on the International Space Station (ISS) (3 October 2014 - 19 August 2016) has been reprocessed using the Pencil Beam Wind Processor (PenWP). ERA5 re-analysis winds from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) have been used to initialise the ambiguity removal step in the wind processing and for validation and monitoring of the wind retrievals. The RapidScat level 1b data have been obtained from the NASA JPL Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) web portal.