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The performance of CFOSAT scatterometer (CSCAT)-derived wind vectors is generally good in terms of root-mean-square error, while the absolute calibration error remains an issue in the current CSCAT product. In this paper, the temporal variation in CSCAT winds is overviewed by analyzing the collocated CSCAT and numerical weather prediction (NWP) model winds. Then, the reasons for the inconsistency of CSCAT-retrieved winds are discussed. The results show that the imperfect calibration of radar backscatter coefficients is likely the main problem of CSCAT wind processing. Consequently, a running-window-based (i.e., weekly) ocean calibration is proposed to evaluate the consistency of CSCAT radar backscatters, and in turn, to recalibrate CSCAT backscattering measurements before the reprocessing of CSCAT wind data. Although the proposed method is not feasible for the near-real-time processing of CSCAT data, it significantly mitigates the temporal variations in CSCAT wind speed bias, resulting in a more consistent CSCAT wind data record that may be beneficial to meteorological quantitative applications.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15082081","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,14]],"date-time":"2023-04-14T10:29:16Z","timestamp":1681468156000},"page":"2081","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["Towards a Consistent Wind Data Record for the CFOSAT Scatterometer"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Xiaoheng","family":"Mou","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wenming","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Space Ocean Remote Sensing and Application, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1531-5262","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yijun","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Marine Sciences, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Space Ocean Remote Sensing and Application, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100081, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,4,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8793","DOI":"10.1109\/TGRS.2020.2990708","article-title":"First results from the rotating fan beam scatterometer onboard CFOSAT","volume":"58","author":"Liu","year":"2020","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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