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[[-99.3072997538658,16.849217106118],[-79.1678042918629,31.0960075334961]] |
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National Climatic Data Center, NESDIS, NOAA |
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["Data","Service","Map Service","ArcGIS Server"] |
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description:
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Blended vector sea surface winds (at 10-m above sea level) and surface windstresses (stresses felt by the water). The wind speeds are blended from multiple satellites [up to six, including Scatterameters (QuikSCAT), SSMIs, TMI and AMSR-E] observations, on a global 0.25-degree grid and time resolution of 6-hourly, as four 'instantaneous' global snapshots per day at UTC/GMT 00, 06, 12 and 18Z. The blended speeds are then decomposed into (u,v) components using the NCEP Re-analysis 2 (NRA-2) wind directions interpolated onto the blended speed grid. The 6-hourly (u,v) instantaneous fields are provided at our data site, and the speed itself can be simply computed as w=(u^2+v^2)^0.5, which is exactly the blended speed from the multiple satellites. This analysis was done for the seasonal fall average from 1990 to 2010.
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catalogPath:
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title:
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Blended Sea Winds - Speed and Direction |
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Map Service |
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tags:
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["winds","blended winds","sea winds","speed","direction"] |
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en-US |
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name:
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NCDC_SeaWinds |
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guid:
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85E2F5F5-136D-4CBB-84EA-BC99E1823AF5 |
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spatialReference:
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WGS_1984_Web_Mercator_Auxiliary_Sphere |