Evaluating the Errors of Oceansat-3 Winds Over the Indian Ocean (opens in new tab)

The Oceansat-3 scatterometer (O3SCAT) winds, operating in the Ku-band frequency, launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), are evaluated by collocating against ocean moored buoy network for the northern Indian Ocean (OMNI), research moored array for African–Asian–Australian monsoon analysis and prediction (RAMA) buoy, ship, Advanced Scatterometer (ASCAT), and ERA5 reanalysis for different basins over the Indian Ocean (IO), viz., tropical IO (TIO), north IO (NIO), and south IO (SI...