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Earth Science/Weather |
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Sea Winds: Catch the Wind The QuikSCAT Story |
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26 minutes/2001 |
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Region 1 through 6, NTSC |
| Item Number |
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002.3-09D |
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$20.00 |
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9-12
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| Captioned for the Hearing Impaired |
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| The QuikSCAT mission was developed rapidly following the premature demise of ADEOS. The Sea Winds instruments are follow-ons to the NASA scatterometer (NSCAT), which flew on NASDA's Advanced Earth Observation Satellite (ADEOS) from August 1996 until the failure of the ADEOS spacecraft in June 1997. QuikSCAT was launched on June 19, 1999 and is expected to operate for at least two years, overlapping the launch and validation of the Sea Winds instrument on ADEOS-II. The Sea Winds/ADEOS-II mission will operate for 3 years after launch with a 5-year lifetime goal. The Sea Winds instruments are designed to acquire accurate, high-resolution, continuous, all-weather measurements of global (land, ice, and ocean) radar cross-section and near-surface vector winds over the ice-free global oceans. As the only instruments capable of measuring wind velocity-both speed and direction-under all-weather conditions, Sea Winds data is crucial for studies of tropospheric dynamics, upper-ocean circulation, and air-sea interaction. Sea Winds data will also be provided in near-real-time to the U.S. National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) for use in global and regional operational weather prediction. |
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