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OAS accession Detail for 0002555
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| Title: | Geosat Geodetic Mission Waveform Data Records (WDR) for October, 1985 (NCEI Accession 0002555) |
| Abstract: | This dataset contains one month of waveform data records (WDRs) from the GEOSAT Geodetic Mission (GM) and(or) Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) for the time period of October 01, 1985 to October 31, 1985. Parameters include: time, orbit, latitude/longitude, and sea surface height. Corrections to the data include: sea level, wind and wave data, tides, dry and wet troposphere, ionosphere, height bias, altimeter crossover differences, altimeter sea surface measurement, and spacecraft orientation. These data were submitted by the U.S. Navy via National Oceanic Service. The US Navy Geosat (Geodetic Satellite) radar altimeter mission lasted for nearly 5 years (March 1985 to January 1990) and collected approximately 750 million measurements of sea level, wave height, and wind speed over the global oceans. During the Geodetic Mission (March 1985 to September 1986), the satellite did not repeat its ground track for the duration of the mission. The orbit of the satellite was changed in October 1986 to begin the Exact Repeat Mission (ERM) which lasted from November 8, 1986 until the satellite quit functioning in January 1990. During the ERM, the satellite repeated its ground track every 17 days. Data were initially processed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, MD in coordination with the NOAA/NOS Satellite Altimeter Group. Data products were transferred to the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) for distribution. Data products are archived at the NODC. |
| Date received: | 20050426 |
| Start date: | 19851001 |
| End date: | 19851031 |
| Seanames: | World-Wide Distribution |
| West boundary: | -180 |
| East boundary: | 180 |
| North boundary: | 72 |
| South boundary: | -72 |
| Observation types: | derived products, meteorological, physical, satellite data, surface measurements |
| Instrument types: | satellite sensor - altimeter |
| Datatypes: | ALTIMETRY - CROSSOVER DIFFERENCES, ALTIMETRY - SEA SURFACE HEIGHT, SEA HEIGHT, SEA LEVEL, SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY, TIDE HEIGHT, TIDE STAGE, WAVE DIRECTION, WAVE HEIGHT, WAVE HEIGHT - SIGNIFICANT, WIND DIRECTION, WIND SPEED |
| Submitter: | Lillibridge, John |
| Submitting institution: | US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Center for Satellite Applications and Research |
| Collecting institutions: | Johns Hopkins University; Applied Physics Laboratory, US Navy |
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| Platforms: | GEOSAT (3290) |
| Number of observations: | |
| Supplementary information: | (1) Geosat Geodetic Mission Sensor Data Records (SDR) and Waveform Data Records (WDR) from March 31, 1985 through September 30, 1986 are archived at NODC. (2) NODC will only archive updates to the documentation under Accession 0002202. Documentation for GEOSAT data accessions is maintained in NCEI accession 0002202. |
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| Metadata version: | 7 |
| Keydate: | 2006-02-09 22:18:38+00 |
| Editdate: | 2022-01-12 14:27:05+00 |