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%               FILE DESCRIBING THE NSCAT LEVEL 3.0 DATASET

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% Revision 1.5  2000/03/17 16:57:30  dbyrne
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% Changed datanames so all indicate NSCAT origin of data.
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% -- dbyrne 00/03/17
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% Revision 1.4  1999/09/21 13:49:14  paul
% changing catalog server to maewest...pdh
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% Revision 1.3  1999/06/01 06:48:41  dbyrne
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% updating things ...
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% Revision 1.2  1999/05/21 17:46:22  paul
%  add DepthUnits = '';  .....  phemenway
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% Revision 1.1  1999/05/21 16:55:49  paul
% Initial version....phemenway
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% FUNCTIONS -- REQUIRED
GetFunctionName = 'getrectg';

% FUNCTIONS -- OPTIONAL
URL_m_File = 'fsun1u';
Cat_m_File = 'fsun1c';

% VARIABLES -- OPTIONAL
Server = ...
   'http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/cgi-bin/nph-nc/nscat/data/wt_W25/';
%CatalogServer = ...
%   'http://ariba.gso.uri.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ff/data/fsu_nscat1fs.dat';
%CatalogServer = ...
%  'http://koko.gso.uri.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ff/servers/nscat/fsu/fsu_nscat1fs.dat';
 CatalogServer = ...
  'http://maewest.gso.uri.edu/cgi-bin/nph-ff/catalog/fsunscat/fsu_nscat1fs.dat';
Nlon = 720;
Nlat = 360;
IntervalTime = 24.0;
MidTime = 12.0;

% VARIABLES -- REQUIRED
LonRange = [0.0 360.0];
LatRange = [-90.0 90.0];
TimeRange = [1996+259/366 1997+180/365];
DepthRange = [0 0];
Resolution = 50.0;
DepthUnits = '';
Acknowledge = sprintf('%s\n\n%s\n\n%s','Dataset Authors: ', ...
             'Dataset Provider: ', ...
             'Dataset Access Provider: ');

DataName = 'Wind - Level 3 NSCAT 1/2-Deg. Averaged - COAPS(FSU)';
LongitudeName = 'lon';
LatitudeName = 'lat';
TimeName = '';
DepthName = '';
SelectableVariables = str2mat('U_Wind','V_Wind');
DodsName = str2mat('u','v');
% note: DataNull is applied *before* scaling
DataNull = [nan nan nan nan 32767 32767];
DataScale = [0.0 1.0; 0.0 1.0; NaN NaN; NaN NaN; 0.0  0.01;  0.0  0.01];
DataRange = [NaN NaN; NaN NaN; NaN NaN; NaN NaN; -50.0 50.0; -50.0 50.0];

% COMMENTS
Comments1 = sprintf('%s\n', ...
'                         COAPS  NSCAT Gridded Daily Winds', ...
' ', ...
' Daily wind fields are produced using a heavily weighted temporal average.', ...
' These products are on a half degree grid, for each day scatterometer', ...
' observations were available over part of the globe. The scatterometer', ...
' winds, and these gridded winds, are calibrated to a height of 10 m.', ...
' This approach bins the satellite swath observations (in 0.5 degree bins)', ...
' without any additional smoothing in space. The data set should be', ...
' considered research quality. ', ...
' ', ...
' The effective sampling time is non-homogeneous in space and time, but', ...
' is typically between one and three days, with a peak at two days. A', ...
' characteristic averaging time can be estimated by applying the averaging', ...
' technique to the absolute value of the difference in time between each', ...
' observation and 12Z on the day to which the wind field applies. This', ...
' characteristic time is roughly half the effective sampling period. The', ...
' probability distribution of this characteristic time (for the region', ...
' around the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea) shows the effectiveness', ...
' of this averaging technique. Data sets with homogeneous sampling', ...
' characteristics require much larger spatial and temporal bins for', ...
' averaging. This technique captures relatively rapid and small scale', ...
' changes that might otherwise be missed. ' , ...
' ', ... 
' This gridding technique and a similar data set are described in', ...
' Bourassa, M. A., L. Zamudio, and J. J. O''Brien, 1998:', ...
' Non-inertial flow in NSCAT observations of Tehuantepec winds.', ...
'  J. Geophys. Res., in press.');

Comments2 = sprintf('%s\n', ...
'    ', ...
'    Units:  (on server) cm/s ==> (once converted) m/s ', ...
'    Time_Period_of_Content = ', ...
'         Beginning_Date:1996/259 ', ...
'         Ending_Date:1997/180 ', ...
'    Spatial_Domain = ', ...
'         Bounding Coordinates: ', ...
'              West Bounding Coordinate:0 ', ...
'              East Bounding Coordinate:360 ', ...
'              South Bounding Coordinate:-90 ', ...
'              North Bounding Coordinate:+90 ', ...
'    Point_of_Contact (Science) = ', ...
'         Address: ', ...
'            contact-name: Dr. Mark A. Bourassa', ...
'            contact-address1: Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies', ...
'            contact-address2: Florida State University', ...
'               contact-address3: Tallahassee, FL 32306-2840', ...
'               contact-country: USA', ...
'        contact-Telephone: (850) 644-6923', ...
'       contact-Electronic Mail Address:INTERNET > bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu', ...
'       contact-http: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/~bourassa/', ...
'    ', ...
'    Point_of_Contact (Data Provision) = ', ...
'         Address: ', ...
'               name: Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies', ...
'               address1: Florida State University', ...
'               address2: Tallahassee, FL 32306-2840', ...
'               country: USA', ...
'               Telephone: (850) 644-6923', ...
'         Electronic Mail Address:INTERNET > bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu');



Comments = [Comments1 Comments2];

Acknowledge = sprintf('%s\n\n%s\n\n%s\n\n%s', ...
         ['The author of this dataset is M. A. Bourassa, bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu.'], ...
         ['The data are provided by the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction ', ...
          'Studies (COAPS), Florida State University, Tallahassee, ', ...
          'FL 32306-2840, bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu,'], ...
         ['and accessed via the Distributed Oceanographic Data ', ...
          'System (DODS: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/dods).'], ...
          ['Citation: ', ...
' This gridding technique and a similar data set are described in', ...
' Bourassa, M. A., L. Zamudio, and J. J. O''Brien, 1998:', ...
' Non-inertial flow in NSCAT observations of Tehuantepec winds.', ...
'  J. Geophys. Res., in press.']   ) ;

Data_Use_Policy='';
