A Tropical Wind Climatology Derived from Aircraft Data, 1960-1973

Long term monthly mean winds were derived from a collection of aircraft data, which were obtained from two sources: 1) operational Global Telecommunication System (GTS) reports collected by the Honolulu National Weather Service and the U.S. Navy, and 2) aircraft logs from many routes which often were not reported over the GTS. Aircraft winds were summarized for each month in 5-degree latitude-longitude squares. Monthly-averaged rawinsonde data were then combined with these summarized aircraft winds in manual analyses of streamlines and isotachs. This dataset's 2.5-degree grids of wind speed and direction were digitized from the manual analyses.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1960-01
    End:  1973-12

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1960-01
Temporal Range End 1973-12
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Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
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Resource Format ASCII
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Asset Size 1.114 MB
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Author Sadler, James C.
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1980-03-27
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.5065/XDWN-H202
Alternate Identifier d208000
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
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Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:31:36Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d208000
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Sadler, James C.. (1980). A Tropical Wind Climatology Derived from Aircraft Data, 1960-1973. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://doi.org/10.5065/XDWN-H202. Accessed 17 October 2025.

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