NOAA/NCDC Blended 6-Hourly Global 0.25° Sea Surface Wind Stress, 1987-2011, Lon+/-180

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, 6-hourly resolution in this dataset; daily and monthly are also available in other directories; See https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html and links within for details

Data and Resources

Field Value
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bbox-east-long 179.75
bbox-north-lat 89.75
bbox-south-lat -89.75
bbox-west-long -180.0
contact-email Huai-Min.Zhang@noaa.gov
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dataset-reference-date [{"type": "creation", "value": "2021-11-14"}]
guid ncdcOw6hrStrs_LonPM180
licence []
metadata-date 2021-11-14
metadata-language eng
metadata_type geospatial
old-spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -89.75], [179.75, -89.75], [179.75, 89.75], [-180.0, 89.75], [-180.0, -89.75]]]}
resource-type dataset
responsible-party [{"name": "NOAA NCEI", "roles": ["pointOfContact"]}]
spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -89.75], [179.75, -89.75], [179.75, 89.75], [-180.0, 89.75], [-180.0, -89.75]]]}
spatial-data-service-type ERDDAP griddap
spatial_harvester true
temporal-extent-begin 1987-07-09T00:00:00Z
temporal-extent-end 2011-09-30T18:00:00Z
Groups
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tags
  • 025-degree
  • air-sea-flux
  • air-sea-interaction
  • altitude
  • amerigeo
  • amerigeoss
  • amplitude
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric
  • atmospheric-winds
  • blended
  • ckan
  • component
  • daily
  • degree
  • downward
  • earth-science
  • eastward
  • ekman-pumping
  • ekman-transport
  • geo
  • geoss
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • mean
  • national
  • ncdc
  • noaa
  • noaa-ncei
  • north-america
  • northward
  • ocean-upwelling
  • ocean-winds
  • oceans
  • scalar
  • sea
  • sea-surface-winds
  • sea-winds
  • stress
  • surface
  • surfacedownwardeastwardstress
  • surfacedownwardnorthwardstress
  • time
  • united-states
  • wind
  • wind-driven-circulation
  • wind-stress
  • winds
  • windstress
  • x-component
  • y-component
isopen False
metadata_created 2025-11-21T14:29:40.615600
metadata_modified 2025-11-21T14:29:40.615604
notes 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, 6-hourly resolution in this dataset; daily and monthly are also available in other directories; See https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html and links within for details
num_resources 10
num_tags 51
title NOAA/NCDC Blended 6-Hourly Global 0.25° Sea Surface Wind Stress, 1987-2011, Lon+/-180