SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton)

Description

Contains monthly averaged ocean surface wind stress derived from Seasat-A Scatterometer (SASS) wind retrievals, from July 1978 until October 1978, gridded on a 2.5-degree by 2.5 degree global grid. The vector average wind stress is stored in units of dynes per centimeter squared (dyn/cm^2). Data is provided in formatted ASCII text. The primary data set used to construct these wind stress fields consists of 96 days of SASS vector winds supplied by Robert Atlas at GSFC. The directional ambiguities in the raw SASS data had been objectively removed using the GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences atmospheric general circulation model.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
21 PO.DAAC Drive https://archive.podaac.earthdata.nasa.gov/podaac-ops-cumulus-docs/seasat/open/L3/sass_monthly_Chelton/docs/README
21 HTTPS endpoint for data browse and download https://cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/virtual-directory/collections/C2617197622-POCLOUD
21 Search results for publications that cite this dataset by its DOI. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=10.5067%2FSSCH3-01XM1
22 Thumbnail https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/CHELTON_SEASAT_SASS_L3.jpg
21 Dataset User Guide https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/pub/documents/dataset_docs/seasat_chelton.html
21 Data Use and Citation Policy https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/CitingPODAAC
21 Browse granule search results in Earthdata Search https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/granules?p=C2617197622-POCLOUD

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  • oceans
  • ocean-winds
  • earth-science

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