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CYGNSS Level 3 MRG Science Data Record Near Real Time Version 3.2

Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/cygns-l3n32

This dataset contains the version 3.2 CYGNSS Level 3 Merged (MRG) Science Data Record Near Real Time (NRT) Storm Wind Speed derived from the Delay Doppler Mapping Instrument aboard the CYGNSS satellite constellation.

Description

It combines CYGNSS storm-centric gridded (SCG) wind speeds, which are derived from the L2 Young Seas Limited Fetch (YSLF) winds for a region surrounding a given tropical cyclone (TC), with L2 Fully Developed Seas (FDS) winds away from the TC center on a 0.2x0.2 degree latitude by longitude equirectangular grid.

L3 MRG is a product which combines the L2 FDS and YSLF winds and eliminates the need to choose between them depending on sea state development and the proximity to storms. The data are provided in netCDF-4 format and starts from the June 11, 2024 through the present with an approximate latency between 2 and 24 hours . A tapered weighted averaging scheme is used centered on the 34-knot wind radius (R34) of the storm.

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The R34 value in each storm quadrant is also reported. The algorithm produces global (+/- 40 deg latitude) wind speeds reported on a 0.1x0.1 deg grid every 6 hours for each tropical cyclone, although some 6-hourly increments may be missing if there are an insufficient number of satellite overpasses of the storm during that time interval. The netCDF files are output on a storm-by-storm basis.

The CYGNSS is a NASA Earth System Science Pathfinder Mission that is intended to collect the first frequent space‐based measurements of surface wind speeds in the inner core of tropical cyclones. Made up of a constellation of eight micro-satellites, the observatories provide nearly gap-free Earth coverage using an orbital inclination of approximately 35° from the equator, with a mean (i.e., average) revisit time of seven hours and a median revisit time of three hours.

This inclination allows CYGNSS to measure ocean surface winds between approximately 38° N and 38° S latitude. This range includes the critical latitude band for tropical cyclone formation and movement

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access_levelsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmosphericmapping · data nasa govconnector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0
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concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:ddmisource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-winds/surface-winds/wind-directionsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/oceans/ocean-winds/surface-winds/wind-speedsource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:cygnsssource · NASA CMRconnector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0
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