SeaWinds

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The SeaWinds instrument, which flew on NASA's Quick Scatterometer (QuikSCAT) satellite and NASA/JAXA's ADEOS-II, was a specialized microwave radar that measured near-surface wind velocity and cloud cover over Earth's oceans.

The instrument was designed to improve weather predictions and models, in part to help plan for and anticipate extreme weather conditions such as floods, hurricanes and tsunamis.

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