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NSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (Version 1.0)
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Ocean surface wind vector components and wind stress curl
data products are derived from spatial
blending of high-resolution satellite data
(NASA Scattometer - NSCAT) and
global weather center reanalyses (NCEP), resulting in
high temporal and spatial resolution datasets (6hourly,
and 0.5 degree). This global dataset spans 12 months,
August 1996 through July 1997.
The NSCAT scatterometer data is oriented along polar-orbit
satellite swaths. The double-sided instrument yielded
two swaths. Each of them about 600-km wide with a 350-km nadir
gap and at 50-km resolution. The NCEP data consists of
global, 6-hourly reanalysis fields on T62 Gaussian grid with
approximate resolution of 1.8 degrees.
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| PERIODS: |
1996 to 1997
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| VARIABLES: |
| Convergence/Divergence | Surface Winds | Wind Stress |
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| LEVELS: |
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| TYPES: |
Satellite
Grids
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| SOURCES: |
NWRA/CORA Colorado Research Associates, Northwest Research Associates, Inc.
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| RELATED SITES: |
NASA JPL PO.DAAC
Jan Morzel at CoRA
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Milliff, R.F., W.G. Large, J. Morzel, G. Danabasoglu, and T.M. Chin, 1999: Ocean general circulation model sensitivity to forcing from scatterometer winds. J. Geophys. Res., C5, 11337-11358.
Chin, T.M., R.F. Milliff, and W.G. Large, 1998: Basin-scale high-wavenumber sea surface wind fields from multiresolution analysis of scatterometer data. J. Atmos. Ocean. Tech., 15, 741-763.
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 ds744.6."
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| VOLUME: |
13.36 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
Binary (see dataset documentation)
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| RELATED DATASETS: |
ds744.1 - NSCAT Scatterometer Ocean Winds, Level 2
ds744.4 - QSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds from Colorado Research Associates (version 5.0)
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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