An Assessment of the Performance of ISRO’s SCATSAT-1 Scatterometer

Suchandra A. Bhowmick, James Cotton, Alexander Fore, Raj Kumar*, Christophe Payan, Ernesto Rodríguez, Anuja Sharma, Bryan Stiles, Ad Stoffelen and Anton Verhoef 5 Space Applications Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Ahmedabad 380 015, India Met Office, UK Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, USA CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS, Toulouse, France Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), The Netherlands

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