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Journal for accession number:  0219920
Created on:                    2020-09-05 12:50:45 UTC
By:                            NCEI

Source: These data were submitted for archive to NCEI from the Center for
Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), NOAA, as part of the
oceanographic products from SAR-wind.

Actions: Data were uploaded by STAR to the Production Distribution and
Access (PDA) system; NCEI downloaded the data and SHA-384 fixity information
files from the PDA. The data files were validated against the SHA-384 fixity
information. An archival information package (NCEI Accession) was generated
and the netCDF and GeoTiFF files were copied to the data/0-data/ directory.
A sample browse graphic for the Sea Surface wind data provided by the
producer was copied to the about/ directory.

Files:

about/ 
This directory contains files created by NCEI staff, including 'negotiable'
information between NCEI staff and the data provider.

0219920_preview.png -
  Sample of a regional map for Level-2 Sea Surface Wind from RADARSAT-2 data.

data/0-data/
This directory contains the data files as submitted to NCEI, including both
graphics and NetCDF data files.

1. NetCDF data files:
RSAT2_<processing center>_<YYYY_MM_DD>_<HH_MM_SS>_<JULIAN SECONDS>_<LON><H>_<LAT><I>_<POLARIZATION>_C5_GFS05CDF_wind_level2_norcs.nc -
  Sea Surface wind data set from RADARSAT-2 in netCDF format at a given location.

File name convention uses "_" as delimiters and the first element is an
abbreviated version of the SAR sensor/satellite. RSAT2=Radarsat-2;
<processing center>=the name of the processing center as included in the
original data (CAIN, GSS or KSAT); <YYYY_MM_DD>=Numeric Year-Month-Day of
center of data acquisition in UTC; <HH_MM_SS>=Numeric Hour-Minute-Second
of center of data acquisition in UTC; <JULIAN SECONDS>=Ten-digit Julian
second of center of data acquisition. Seconds are referenced with respect
to January 1, 2000 00:00:00 UTC; <LON>=Longitude in degrees; <H>=Hemisphere
of Longitude, E or W; <LAT>=Latitude in degrees; <I>=Hemisphere of Latitude,
S or N; <POLARIZATION>=HH, VV, HV, or VH; C5=The first letter represents the
SAR frequency, L-band, C-band, or X-band. The digit(s) represent which
geophysical model function (GMF) was used for the wind retrieval.The default
value is 0; GFS05CDF=Directory name with the winds directions used for retrieval
(spaces and underscores removed); wind=Data type; level2=Data level; norcs =
normalized radar cross section; '.nc' represents the file is in netCDF format.

2. GeoTIFF files:
RSAT2_<processing center>_<YYYY_MM_DD>_<HH_MM_SS>_<JULIAN SECONDS>_<LON><H>_<LAT><I>_<POLARIZATION>_C5_GFS05CDF_wind.tiff -
  Sea Surface wind data set from RADARSAT-2 in GeoTIFF format at a given location.

File naming convention uses "_" as delimiters and the first element is an
abbreviated version of the SAR sensor/satellite. RSAT2=Radarsat-2; <processing
center>=the name of the processing center as included in the original data
(CAIN, GSS or KSAT); <YYYY_MM_DD>=Numeric Year-Month-Day of center of data
acquisition in UTC; <HH_MM_SS>=Numeric Hour-Minute-Second of center of data
acquisition in UTC; <JULIAN SECONDS>=Ten-digit Julian second of center of
data acquisition. Seconds are referenced with respect to January 1, 2000
00:00:00 UTC; <LON>=Longitude in degrees; <H>=Hemisphere of Longitude, E
or W; <LAT>=Latitude in degrees; <I>=Hemisphere of Latitude, S or N;
<POLARIZATION>=HH, VV, HV, or VH; C5=The first letter represents the SAR
frequency, L-band, C-band, or X-band. The digit(s) represent which geophysical
model function (GMF) was used for the wind retrieval. The default value is 0;
GFS05CDF=Directory name with the winds directions used for retrieval (spaces
and underscores removed); wind=Data type; '.tiff' represents the file is in
GeoTiff format.