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Climatological Mean Global Wind Stress and Curl, by Harrison et al.

A monthly mean climatological wind stress was derived from the National Climate Center TDF-11 ocean observations. The dataset was derived in 1989 using the Large and Pond algorithm for ocean wind stress.


PERIODS:
VARIABLES:
Wind Stress
LEVELS:
Ground or water surface
TIMES: Monthly Climatology
TYPES: Grid
COVERAGE: Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N
Detailed coverage information
SOURCES: DOC/NOAA/OAR/PMEL
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC
National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
PUBLICATIONS: Harrison, D.E., 1989: On climatological monthly mean wind stress and wind stress curl fields over the world ocean. J. Clim., 2(1), 57-70.

VOLUME: 56.63 MBytes
FORMATS: ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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