IMOS - Satellite Remote Sensing - Surface Waves Sub-Facility - CFOSAT - scatterometer wave

Sea State

This database contains global daily wave observations from the Surface Wave Investigation and Monitoring (SWIM) wave scatterometer instrument onboard the China-France Oceanography Satellite (CFOSAT), aggregated into 1° by 1° geographical bins. Specifically, the dataset includes SWIM Level-2 standard wave parameters derived from the 10° incidence-angle beam, wave products calibrated against in-situ wave buoy observations, improved mean wave period estimates, and collocated wave hindcast model outputs. The data have been homogenised into a consistent and easily usable format. This is a trial dataset, and its calibration and validation is an area of current active research.

Data and resources

Website of the IMOS Surface Waves Sub-Facility

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Link to article on calibration - Canto et al., 2026, Ocean Dynamics

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NetCDF files via THREDDS catalog

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Files via Amazon Web Services S3 storage

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View and download data though the AODN Portal

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Website of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Website of the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN)

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Additional information

Date (creation)	2026-08-07
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	biannually
Metadata language	en
License	Data, products and services from IMOS are provided "as is" without any warranty as to fitness for a particular purpose.
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-05
Created	2026-11-05
API	package_show