Description
This dataset contains ocean surface Eastward wind from SeaWinds on QuikSCAT binned and averaged monthly on 1 degree grids. The coverage is from August 1999 through October 2009. The QuikSCAT Project produced this dataset in support of the CMIP5 (Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5) under the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and was first made available via the Earth System Grid. This dataset was derived directly from the QuikSCAT Level 2B dataset, which can be accessed here: https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/QSCAT_LEVEL_2B. The SeaWinds instrument is a conical scanning pencil-beam radar, with dual-beam and dual-polarization capability, operating at Ku-band to provide all-weather ocean surface wind vector retrievals. For more information on the QuikSCAT platform and mission, please visit
https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanWind/QuikSCAT .
For more information about this dataset, please see the documents in
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/allData/climate_intercomparison/wind/docs/ and
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/OceanWinds/quikscat/L3/wind_1deg_1mo/docs/ .
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| OPeNDAP | Unknown | An OPeNDAP service for gridded data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. | Open resource |
| ERDDAP-griddap | Unknown | ERDDAP's griddap service (a flavor of OPeNDAP) for gridded data. Add different extensions (e.g., .html, .graph, .das, .dds) to the base URL for different purposes. | Open resource |
| Make-A-Graph Form | Unknown | ERDDAP's Make-A-Graph .html web page for this dataset. Create an image with a map or graph of a subset of the data. | Open resource |
| Data Subset Form | HTML | ERDDAP's version of the OPeNDAP .html web page for this dataset. Specify a subset of the dataset and download the data via OPeNDAP or in many different file types. | Open resource |
| OGC-WMS | WMS | Open Geospatial Consortium Web Map Service (WMS) | Open resource |
| Background Information | Unknown | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | Unknown | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | Unknown | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | Unknown | Background information from the source | Open resource |
| Background Information | Unknown | Background information from the source | Open resource |
Tags
- administration
- aeronautics
- atmosphere
- atmospheric
- atmospheric winds
- cmip
- cmip-5
- cmip5
- earth science
- earth system grid
- eastward wind
- eastward_wind
- eastward_wind_number_of_observations
- eastward_wind_standard_error
- esg
- gridded
- ipcc
- jet
- jpl
- laboratory
- latitude
- level 3
- longitude
- model
- monthly
- nasa
- nasa jpl
- nasa-jpl
- national
- near
- near-surface
- northtward_wind_number_of_observations
- northward_wind
- northward_wind_standard_error
- obs4mips
- observation
- observations
- obs-quikscat
- ocean surface wind
- ocean surface wind vector
- output
- pcmdi
- prepared
- propulsion
- quikscat
- seawinds
- space
- speed
- surface
- surface eastward wind
- surface wind
- surface winds
- time
- wind
- winds
- wind_speed
- wind_speed_number_of_observations
- wind_speed_standard_error
- wind vector
- wind vectors
- zonal wind
- zonal wind vector