The first statistics highlighting the delivery time of ERS-1 wind scatterometer products for the month of March 1992. The three acquisition stations used were Gatineau station (GS) in Canada, Kiruna station (KS) in Sweden and Maspalomas station (MS) in Spain. For the majority of days that month, the products were available within the 180-minute period (i.e. 3 hours – the time frame used to define near-real time).