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    "title": "NOAA high resolution sea surface winds data from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) on Sentinel-1 satellites from 2024-04-01 to 2024-04-30 (NCEI Accession 0293643)",
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        "0293643",
        "WIND SPEED",
        "SAR",
        "satellite data",
        "SENTINEL-1A",
        "SENTINEL-1B",
        "European Space Agency",
        "US DOC; NOAA; NESDIS; Center for Satellite Applications and Research",
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        "Bay of Fundy",
        "Beaufort Sea",
        "Bering Sea",
        "Bering Sea - Norton Sound",
        "Caribbean Sea",
        "Chesapeake Bay",
        "Chukchi Sea",
        "Coastal Waters of Florida",
        "Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia",
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        "Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary",
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        "DOC\/NOAA\/NESDIS\/OSPO > Office of Satellite and Product Operations, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
        "DOC\/NOAA\/NESDIS\/STAR > Center for Satellite Applications and Research, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
        "EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED",
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        "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > BEAUFORT SEA",
        "OCEAN > ARCTIC OCEAN > CHUKCHI SEA",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BAY OF FUNDY",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > CARIBBEAN SEA",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MAINE",
        "OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > GULF OF MEXICO",
        "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > CENTRAL PACIFIC OCEAN > HAWAIIAN ISLANDS",
        "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN",
        "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > BERING SEA",
        "OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN > NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN > GULF OF ALASKA",
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        "oceans",
        "climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere"
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