Identification

Title

TOVS Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) Derived Arctic Winds

Alternative title(s)

106.214

Abstract

The TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) derived wind dataset consists of gridded daily wind fields north of 60 degrees latitude. The dataset is gridded at 100km spatial resolution on an Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid). Daily Northern Hemisphere data are available from July 1979 through December 2005. The dataset is derived from TOVS Path-P temperature profiles, combined with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis-1 10m winds and surface pressure. The dataset was derived based on the method described in Zou and Van Woert (2002) for the Antarctic and extended to the Arctic region in Francis et al. (2005). The wind vector is calculated for 7 levels at each grid point using the standard thermal wind equation, TOVS temperature profiles and the NCEP 10m winds. The data is further corrected using a Lagrange Multiplier approach subject to a mass conservation constraint appropriate for the pole. The dataset was derived at the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. It includes NCEP 10m winds (corrected) and surface pressure linearly interpolated to the EASE grid, as well as derived wind data at 7 levels.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.214

protocol: https

name: TOVS Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) Derived Arctic Winds homepage

description: Dataset homepage

Unique resource identifier

code

106.214

codeSpace

Dataset language

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

dataset

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Resource Type

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2014-10-16

Keyword set

keyword value

Reanalysis Models

NOAA POES

Keyword set

keyword value

Models/Analyses

Satellite

Upper Air

Arctic

Keyword set

keyword value

EARTH SCIENCE SERVICES > MODELS > WEATHER RESEARCH/FORECAST MODELS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > UPPER LEVEL WINDS > WIND SPEED

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND DIRECTION

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > SURFACE PRESSURE

EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Global Change Master Directory (GCMD)

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2018-02-27

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-180.00000

East bounding longitude

180.00000

North bounding latitude

90.00000

South bounding latitude

60.00000

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1979-07-01T00:00:00Z

End position

2005-12-31T23:59:59Z

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2009-04-21T13:29:13Z

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Conformity

Data format

name of format

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

none

Limitations on public access

none

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University

full postal address

71 Dudley Rd

New Brunswick

08901

telephone number

848-932-3704

email address

hunter@marine.rutgers.edu

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

EOL Data Support

organisation name

UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory

full postal address

PO Box 3000

Boulder

80307-3000

email address

datahelp@eol.ucar.edu

web address

https://data.eol.ucar.edu/

name: homepage

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-07T22:48:22Z

Metadata language

eng; USA