PenWP v2.1 released

PenWP v2.1 has been released in February 2017. This version of the Ku-band pencil beam scatterometer wind data processor can process OSCAT data from ScatSat-1. In the Ambiguity Removal step, empirical background error correlations (NBECs) can be used which yield improvements in the retrieved wind fields. Version 2.1 is also the version to be used for Oceansat-2 reprocessing in the OSI SAF, backscatter calibration tables have been modified accordingly.