ScatSat-1 wind products from OSI SAF on EUMETCast soon

The products are ScatSat-1 25 km (OSI-112-a) and 50 km (OSI-112-b) scatterometer winds, in BUFR and netCDF format. The ScatSat-1 satellite was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and carries the OSCAT scatterometer. ISRO kindly provides the near-real time data which are used as input for the OSI SAF wind products.

The products will be distributed on EUMETCast Europe and EUMETCast Africa.

EUMETCast Europe, Basic Service

Channel: SAF-Global
PID: 300
Multicast address: 224.223.222.32

EUMETCast Africa

Channel: A1C-SAF-1
PID: 100
Multicast address: 224.223.225.3

Example filenames

25 km swath grid spacing

BUFR product

W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20181211124750_11692_o_250_ovw_l2.bin

NetCDF product

W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20190119020116_12251_o_250_ovw_l2.nc.gz

50 km swath grid spacing

BUFR product

W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20181211124750_11692_o_500_ovw_l2.bin

NetCDF product

W_NL-KNMI-DeBilt,SURFACE+SATELLITE,SCATSAT-1+OSCAT_C_EHDB_20190119011122_12250_o_500_ovw_l2.nc.gz

ScatSat-1 Wind Product User Manual

Visualise the 25 km product
Visualise the 50 km product

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