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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ESSDD</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Earth System Science Data Discussions</journal-title>
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<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="epub">1866-3591</issn>
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<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/essd-2026-364</article-id>
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<article-title>A global kilometre-scale tropical cyclone inner-core vector wind field dataset from CYGNSS observations</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Han</surname>
<given-names>Xinhai</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8943-3149</ext-link>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<sup>2</sup>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Li</surname>
<given-names>Xiaohui</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Yang</surname>
<given-names>Jingsong</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Ni</surname>
<given-names>Hanyue</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Niu</surname>
<given-names>Zeyi</given-names>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Wei</given-names>
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<label>1</label>
<addr-line>Shanghai Typhoon Institute, and Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Tropical Cyclone of the China Meteorological Administration, Shanghai 200030, China</addr-line>
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<addr-line>State Key Laboratory of Satellite Ocean Environment Dynamics, Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China</addr-line>
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<label>3</label>
<addr-line>School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China</addr-line>
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<label>4</label>
<addr-line>Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519082, China</addr-line>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>22</day>
<month>05</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>22</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Xinhai Han et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>Tropical cyclone (TC) inner-core vector wind fields are essential for intensity forecasting, storm surge prediction, and structural climatology. The Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) constellation provides dense temporal sampling and L-band precipitation-penetrating capability over the tropical belt, but its sparse, scalar wind speed retrievals have not been fully assimilated to produce kilometre-scale TC inner-core vector wind fields with global multi-basin coverage. This paper presents the QiFeng-CYGNSS dataset, which combines CYGNSS observations with a physics-guided score-based diffusion assimilation framework to reconstruct spatially complete 10 m vector wind fields from sparse scalar wind speed observations. The dataset covers 249 TCs across six active global basins during January 2020&amp;ndash;September 2022, providing 1.5 km resolution vector wind fields at every IBTrACS reporting time with available CYGNSS coverage (4955 snapshots in total), accompanied by observation metadata and pixel-level ensemble uncertainty estimates for 138 major-hurricane snapshots. Independent validation against spaceborne C-band synthetic aperture radar, airborne Tail Doppler Radar, and GPS dropsondes indicates that the reconstructions represent TC inner-core structures at kilometre scales, reducing the absolute &lt;em&gt;V&lt;/em&gt;&lt;sub&gt;max&lt;/sub&gt; bias relative to ERA5 and CCMP by ~79% and ~75%, respectively, on the full sample. The dataset is freely available from Zenodo at &lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20046109&quot;&gt;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20046109&quot;&gt;0046109&lt;/a&gt; (Han et al., 2026b).</p>
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<funding-source>National Natural Science Foundation of China</funding-source>
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<award-id>42192561</award-id>
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