NOAA Environmental Research Division

WMS for NOAA/NCDC Blended Monthly 0.25-degree Sea Surface Wind Stress

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Web Service, OGC Web Map Service 1.3.0
Keywords
0.25-degree, Atmosphere, Atmospheric Winds, Wind Stress, air-sea flux, air-sea interaction, amplitude, amplitude_as_scalar_mean, atmosphere, atmospheric, blended, component, degree, downward, earth science, eastward, ekman pumping, ekman transport, mean, monthly, ncdc, noaa, northward, ocean upwelling, ocean winds, oceans, scalar, sea, sea surface winds, sea winds, stress, surface, surface_downward_eastward_stress, surface_downward_northward_stress, wind, wind stress, wind-driven circulation, winds, windstress, x-component, y-component
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NOAA Environmental Research Division (unverified)

Contact information:

Bob Simons

NOAA Environmental Research Division

postal:
1352 Lighthouse Ave., 93950 Pacific Grove, USA

Email: 

Phone: 831-658-3205

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Gridded and blended sea surface windstresses from multiple satellites with direction from NCEP Reanalysis-2; Global ocean coverage with a 0.25-degree resolution; The whole datasets covers from July 1987 to present, monthly resolution in this dataset; 6-hourly and daily are also available in other directories; See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html and links within for details. Include (taux,tauy) means & mean tau as scalar means

Available map layers (9)

Land (Land)

NOAA/NCDC Blended Monthly 0.25-degree Sea Surface Wind Stress - taux (ncdcOwMonStrs:taux)

NOAA/NCDC Blended Monthly 0.25-degree Sea Surface Wind Stress - tauy (ncdcOwMonStrs:tauy)

NOAA/NCDC Blended Monthly 0.25-degree Sea Surface Wind Stress - tau (ncdcOwMonStrs:tau)

LandMask (LandMask)

Coastlines (Coastlines)

Lakes and Rivers (LakesAndRivers)

National Boundaries (Nations)

State Boundaries (States)

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