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Global Ocean Wind Stress, climatology, by Hellerman et al.

This is a 12 month wind stress climatology derived from ocean surface wind observations, 1870-1976.


PERIODS: 1870 to 1976
VARIABLES:
Wind Stress
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Monthly Climatology
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89S Northernmost=89N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/GFDL
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Hellerman, S., and M. Rosenstein, 1983: Normal monthly wind stress over the world ocean with error estimates. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 13, 1093-1104.

VOLUME: 3.14 MBytes
FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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