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    its antenna motor ended QuikSCAT's capabilities to determine useful surface wind information on 23 November 2009. The QuikSCAT geophysical data record...
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    Kumar (2014). "Cross Calibration of the OceanSAT -2 Scatterometer With QuikSCAT Scatterometer Using Natural Terrestrial Targets". Research Gate. Retrieved...
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    Mission (precipitation radar, 1997-2015) JERS-1 (SAR, Japan, 1998-2001) QuikSCAT (scatterometer, United States, 1999-2008) Shuttle Imaging Radar on the...
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    passivation. It wass de-orbited with 12 orbital manoeuvres. Spaceflight portal QuikSCAT Oceansat-1 Oceansat-2 "Special Section: SCATSAT-1". Nair, Avinash (27 May...
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    McFadden (April 2005). "Hurricane Force Extratropical Cyclones Observed Using QuikSCAT Near Real Time Winds". Mariners Weather Log. 49 (1). Voluntary Observing...
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  • MIPAS MISR MODIS MOPITT MTSAT NMP NOAA-N' NPOESS OMI OCO PARASOL QuickBird QuikSCAT RADARSAT-1 SCIAMACHY SeaWiFS SORCE SPOT TES Terra TRMM ERS Nimbus program...
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    1999. It was followed up by three other EOS satellites: Terra, Aqua and QuikSCAT. To ensure a sustainable financing of operations, NSC started negotiating...
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    about 370 miles (595 km) east of Barbados. At the same time however, a QuikSCAT pass suggested the system did not contain a low-level circulation, and...
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  • Niño links as detected by a decade of QuikSCAT, TRMM and TOPEX/Jason Observations From El Nino to Atlantic Nino: pathways as seen in the QuikScat winds...
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    02:58:27 UTC Revolution no. 87867 Large Strategic Science Missions Earth Science Division Aqua → Earth Observing System ← QuikSCAT Earth Observing-1 →...
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    QuikSCAT image of typical extratropical cyclones over the ocean. Note the maximum winds on the poleward side of the occluded front....
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    QuikSCAT image showing the speed of the Santa Ana winds (m/s)...
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    space radio stations dedicated to the radiodetermination-satellite service QuikSCAT-Satellite, with Wind-profiling-radar OSTM-06-Satellite, with High-altimeter-radar...
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    in terms of seasons' first storms. On December 26, the MFR utilized the QuikSCAT satellite for the first time in the basin to assess a storm's intensity...
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    Indian Ocean, Monsoon, and Somali Current using NASA's AIRS, MODIS, and QuikSCAT data" Archived 2008-09-17 at the Wayback Machine. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences...
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    the GOES series from the 1970s onward. Polar orbiting satellites such as QuikScat and TRMM began to relay wind information near the ocean's surface starting...
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    1, 2011. Retrieved May 6, 2009. Chavas, D.R.; Emanuel, K.A. (2010). "A QuikSCAT climatology of tropical cyclone size". Geophysical Research Letters. 37...
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  • Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) Quick Scatterometer Mission (QuikSCAT) TIMED (Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics) Solar...
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    Archived from the original on 4 October 2008. Retrieved 10 August 2017. "QuikSCAT". Winds.jpl.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 14 January 2013. Retrieved...
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  • Stefan G. Llewellyn; Lee, Shira M. (2003). "Measuring the sea breeze from QuikSCAT Scatterometry". Geophysical Research Letters. 30 (3): 1114. Bibcode:2003GeoRL...
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    around the Hawaiian Islands measured by the Seawinds instrument aboard QuikSCAT during August 1999. Trade winds blow from right to left in the image. The...
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    was based on estimates from the Hebert-Poteat technique and data from QuikSCAT. Shortly thereafter, it made its closest point of approach to Bermuda,...
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    rather than subtropical cyclone, and the radius of maximum winds (based on QuikSCAT) was very close to the center, also more typical of tropical cyclones....
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  • instrument on QuikSCAT (2001–2009) OSCAT-2 instrument on SCATSAT-1 (launched 2016) SCAT instrument on Oceansat-2 (2009–2014) ISS-RapidScat on the International...
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    swath 900 km wide (560 mi). The ISS-RapidScat program was initiated in response to the failure of the QuikSCAT satellite's antenna rotation mechanism in...
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    Earth-orbiting satellites such as TOPEX/Poseidon, and scatterometers on ADEOS I, QuikSCAT, and Jason-1. On the 35th anniversary of Seasat's launch, the Alaska Satellite...
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  • Thumbnail for 2000 Pacific hurricane season
    southern Mexico into the Eastern Pacific, and on August 13, a 12:21 UTC QuikSCAT scan revealed a low-level circulation, and it was designated as a tropical...
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    evident using visible satellite, shortwave infrared, microwave imagery or QuikSCAT/Windsat ambiguities 3 points A circulation has been evident for at least...
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    removed from the center. Early on September 23, both satellite estimates and QuikScat data determined that the depression had strengthened into Subtropical Storm...
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    adaptation of ocean surface winds observed from the QuikSCAT satellite in early 2000. Prior to the QuikSCAT launch, there was no ability to observe, verify...
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