Data Publications

Monthly and Climatological Tropical Pacific Wind Stress

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  • UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS
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  • Monthly and Climatological Tropical Pacific Wind Stress
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  • NCAR_DS231.0
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  • Wyrtki, K. and G. Meyers, 1975: The trade wind field over the Pacific Ocean. Part I. The mean field and mean annual variation. HIG-75-1, Hawaii Inst. Geophys., University of Hawaii, 26 pp..
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  • 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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