Monthly and Climatological Tropical Pacific Wind Stress

Five million international ship observations of the Pacific trade winds are presented in monthly summaries. For each month in the period from 1947 to 1973, a 10-degree latitude by 2-degree longitude grid includes various wind and wind stress information. Coverage within the grid is not 100% as most observations occurred along shipping routes. Most of the raw wind observations were Beaufort estimates that were converted to wind speed and direction.

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  • Zaihua Ji
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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1947
    End:  1973

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1947
Temporal Range End 1973
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 29
Bounding Box South Lat -29
Bounding Box West Long 125
Bounding Box East Long -75
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 10.71 MB
Legal Constraints

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Access Constraints Registration on the RDA web site is a requirement for access to the data.
Software Implementation Language N/A

Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization UCAR/NCAR - Research Data Archive
Distributor NCAR Research Data Archive
Metadata Contact Name N/A
Metadata Contact Email rdahelp@ucar.edu
Metadata Contact Organization NCAR Research Data Archive

Author Wyrtki, Klaus
Publisher Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory
Publication Date 1979-12-05
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier ds231.0
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2020-10-19T10:05:02-07:00
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.rda::ds231.0
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Wyrtki, Klaus. (1979). Monthly and Climatological Tropical Pacific Wind Stress. Research Data Archive at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory. https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds231.0/. Accessed 24 September 2023.

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