Credits

This product is the collective work of a team from the Department of Oceanography from Space, including the CERSAT, at the Institut Francais pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER). It is based on the raw scatterometer data provided by the European Space Agency (ESA) for ERS-1 and ERS-2, and by the Physical Oceanography Data Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) that we thank gratefully. Funding by ESA and IFREMER is also gratefully acknowledged. We also acknowledge the WOCE International Project Office and the WOCE Data Information Unit for their support when creating this DVD and the National Oceanographic Data Center for duplicating and distributing this DVD.

This DVD should be referenced as "WOCE Data Products Committee. 2002. WOCE Global Data, Version 3.0, WOCE International Project Office, WOCE Report No. 180/02, Southampton, UK". Permission is granted to copy, process, modify or distribute the data recorded on this DVD, for any non-profit educational or scientific purpose. Acknowledgment should be given to CERSAT/IFREMER. The data and documentation are provided "as is" without any warranty. Commercial uses require authorization; please contact us if you plan to use these data for profit.

We also request a reprint of any papers or reports published using these data, in order tu update our reference archive and to improve our knowledge of the oceanographic community's needs.