QuikSCAT sigma-0 measurements at the locations of tau bouys (1999-2007)

subdirectories contain gzipped text files with one-line per entry for
measurements with 1 deg of the nominal tau bouy locations.  For valid
sigmao0 values each line contains
lat,lon,sig(dB),az_ang,inc_ang,dist,time_code,pol(h=1,v=2),date_code,rev
where date code=YYMMDDHHmm for the start of the rev and the time code 
is the number of seconds since the start of the rev. Thus, the time
a measurement is taken is the decoded date_code+time_code.  Dist
is the distance in deg from the nearest nominal tau bouy location.
Each gzipped daily file is about 1/2 MB.  All available valid
measurements for each day are included.

The .tar files in the main directory are the tar'ed up subdirectories
and provided for convenience in downloading.  The tar files are 
about 195 MB each, except for the first year with is 89 MB.

For questions contact 

Dr. David G. Long                                     long@ee.byu.edu
Director, BYU Center for Remote Sensing      http://www.cers.byu.edu/
Professor, Electrical and Computer Eng. Dept.  http://www.ee.byu.edu/
Brigham Young University                          http://www.byu.edu/
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Provo, Utah    84602                                fax: 801-422-0201