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Seawinds
A specialized microwave radar, known as a scatterometer, that measures near-surface wind velocity (both speed and direction) under all weather and cloud conditions over Earth's oceans. Built by JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), it was carried aboard QuikScat in 1999 and ADEOS-2 in 2002.
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