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 informationDetailed coverage information:
2.0° x 2.0°, 1.0E to 1.0W and 89.0S to 89.0N (180 x 90 Longitude/Latitude)
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.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds232.0."
VOLUME:
3.14 MBytes
DATA FORMATS:
ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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