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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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1947
    End:  1973

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1947
Temporal Range End 1973
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format ASCII
Standardized Resource Format ASCII
Asset Size 1.874 MB
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Wyrtki, Klaus
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1979-12-05
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d231000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:21:42Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d231000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Wyrtki, Klaus. (1979). Monthly and Climatological Tropical Pacific Wind Stress. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d231000. Accessed 13 October 2025.

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