7 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables[EN] In the past few years, scatterometer winds have been successfully assimilated in weather analysis. A good assessment of the information content of these winds is particularly important for such activities. Besides retrieval problems in cases of a confused sea state, a particularly acute problem of Ku-band scatterometry is the sensitivity to rain. Elimination of poor quality data is therefore a prerequisite for the successful use of the new National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) scatterometer, QuikSCAT. This issue has been the topic of recent work. On the one hand, the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI) has developed a quality control (QC) procedure, which detects and rejects the poor q...