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Climatological Mean Global Wind Stress and Curl, by Harrison et al.
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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.
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Monthly Climatology
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Grid
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Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N
 Detailed coverage information Detailed coverage information:
1° x 1°, 0.5E to 359.5E and 89.5S to 89.5N (360 x 180 Longitude/Latitude)
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DOC/NOAA/OAR/PMEL Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, OAR, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
DOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NCDCNational Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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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.
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 ds232.1."
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56.63 MBytes
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ASCII (see dataset documentation)
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