Version 7 revision 00 was active from 10 Feb 2015 to 24 April 2016.
Latest version: RSS Wind Climatology V7r01 is available as of 25 April 2016.
The RSS Monthly 1-deg Merged Wind Climatology netCDF dataset provides one degree gridded data for the monthly means of wind speed and wind direction, a 20 year climatology file, and a cumulative file from 1988 to the current month. This includes the anomalies for global winds over Ice Free Oceans (60S to 60N) and the tropical mean for 20S to 20N. Satellite information used in calculating the means is included for the SSMI (8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) and SSMIS (16, 17), AQUA10 and Windsat (Coriolis). This dataset contains both netCDF3 and netCDF4 formatted files.
Mears, Carl A., Deborah K. Smith, Kyle Hilburn and Lucrezia Ricciardulli. 2015. RSS Monthly 1-deg Merged Wind Climatology netCDF V7r00 [indicate subset used]. Dataset available online from the NASA Global Hydrology Resource Center DAAC, Huntsville, Alabama, U.S.A. https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/pub/wind_climatology/ DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/MULTIPLE/WIND_CLIMATOLOGY/DATA301Click here for the citation in RIS format.
| Publication date: | 2015-02-10 | |
| Version: | 7r00 | |
| Collections: | DISCOVER MEaSUREs Products | |
| Projects: | DISCOVER | |
| Platforms: | AQUA, Coriolis, DMSP 5D-2/F10, DMSP 5D-2/F11, DMSP 5D-2/F13, DMSP 5D-2/F14, DMSP 5D-2/F15, DMSP 5D-2/F8, DMSP 5D-3/F16, DMSP 5D-3/F17 | |
| Instruments: | AMSR-E, SSMI, SSMIS, WINDSAT | |
| Terms: | ATMOSPHERIC WINDS | |
| Processing level: | 3 | |
| Format: | NETCDF | |
![[coverage map]](../coverage/rss1windn_v7r00.png)
Red dots or areas indicate coverage range.
| Location: | GLOBAL OCEANS |
| Spatial resolution: | 1 degree grid |
| North boundary: | 90° |
| West boundary: | -180° |
| East boundary: | 180° |
| South boundary: | -90° |
| Temporal resolution: | MONTHLY |
| Start date: | 1988-01-01 |
| Stop date: | 2016-03-31 |
| Retired Dataset: | Retired data available on request only | Guide: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/rss1windn_dataset.pdf The guide document contains detailed information about the dataset |
| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/wentz_JGR_1997.pdf A well-calibrated ocean algorithm for special sensor microwave/ imager |
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| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/Hilburn_V7_Poster_AMS_SatMet_2010_Annapolis.pdf Description of Remote Sensing Systems Version-7 Geophysical Retrievals |
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| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/Wentz_Nature_2000.pdf Precise climate monitoring using complementary satellite data sets |
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| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/mears_GRL_2007.pdf Relationship between temperature and precipitable water changes over tropical oceans |
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| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/Wentz_Science_2007.pdf How Much More Rain Will Global Warming Bring? |
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| PI Documentation: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/wentz_JAS_1998.pdf SSM/I Rain Retrievals within a Unified All-Weather Ocean Algorithm |
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| Algorithm Information: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/AMSR_Ocean_Algorithm_Version_2_Supplement_1.pdf AMSR Ocean Algorithm documentation |
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| Algorithm Information: | http://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/rss1windn/AMSR_Ocean_Algorithm_Version_2.pdf AMSR Ocean Algorithm documentation |
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| DOI
for V7r00: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/MULTIPLE/WIND_CLIMATOLOGY/DATA301 Digital Object Identifier |
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| Citing data: |
https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/about-ghrc/citing-ghrc-daac-data Instructions for citing GHRC data. |
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