Identification

Title

QSCAT-R: The QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone Radial Structure Dataset

Abstract

QSCAT-R contains data for the radial structure of near-surface wind and rain rate for tropical cyclones globally during the period 1999-2009. The dataset is derived from the corresponding two-dimensional data fields originally estimated from QuikSCAT satellite measurements and optimized for analysis of tropical cyclones within the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) QuikSCAT Tropical Cyclone database. QSCAT-R includes radial profiles of total wind speed and its azimuthal and radial components and corresponding estimates of canonical wind radii, as well as radial profiles of a quantity proportional to rain rate and, when available, collocated SSM/I cloud liquid data. Additionally, data coverage necessarily varies in space and time due to the nature of satellite remote sensing, and thus QSCAT-R provides a parametric measure of data asymmetry to help quantify this form of uncertainty. Overall, as a relatively small dataset (~100 MB) written in a user-friendly NetCDF format, QSCAT-R offers the research community a significant new tool for the analysis of the radial structure of tropical cyclones in nature.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

Unique resource identifier

code

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-07-17

Keyword set

keyword value

​QuikSCAT

tropical cyclone

hurricane

wind field

structure

size

radial profile

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2005-11-17

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

East bounding longitude

North bounding latitude

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2000-01-06T06:54:00

End position

2009-11-21T21:11:00

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Use constraints

Use of these data are subject to a data user agreement and license. Copyright 2015 Princeton University. (See also http://verif.rap.ucar.edu/tcdata/quikscat/dataset/data_user_agreement_and_license.php )

Limitations on public access

Access Constraints: Free Access

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

organisation name

email address

drchavas@gmail.com

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

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contact position

organisation name

email address

drchavas@gmail.com

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-10-03T15:30:46.439785

Metadata language