International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
European Way
Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Phone: +44-2380 596777
Fax: +44-2380 596204
Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk
CLIVAR Data Assembly Centres (DACs)
Satellite Wind and Fluxes DAC
CERSAT (French ERS Processing and Archiving Centre), IFremer, France
Principal Contact: Jean-Francois Piole
Email: Jean.Francois.Piolle@ifremer.fr
Website: http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat/en/index.htm
Data: http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat/en/data/download/download.htm
Responsibilities: CERSAT acted as the satellite wind DAC during the WOCE experiment, delivering global mean wind fields derived from various scatterometers (ERS-1, ERS-2, NSCAT, QuikSCAT). It is continuing this activity within CLIVAR project, bringing new products such as high frequency blended wind fields (merging scatterometer, altimeter, radiometer and model outputs data) and fluxes derived from satellite observations (latent heat).