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

Gridded and blended sea surface vector winds 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. Include (u,v) means and scalar mean speed w for comparison

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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": "2022-09-04"}]
guid ncdcOw6hr_LonPM180
licence []
lineage Simple spatiotemporally weighted Interpolation (SI), V.1.2. Version 1.2 uses updated satellite retrievals by Remote Sensing System, released in September 2006: SSMI V06, TMI V04, QSCAT V03a. AMSRE V05 was also updated using the new SSMI rain rate
metadata-date 2022-09-04
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]]]}
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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
Gruppi
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • National Provider
  • North America
Tag
  • 0.25-degree
  • 6-hourly
  • AmeriGEO
  • AmeriGEOSS
  • CKAN
  • GEO
  • GEOSS
  • National
  • North America
  • United States
  • air-sea flux
  • air-sea interaction
  • altitude
  • atmosphere
  • atmospheric
  • atmospheric winds
  • blended
  • component
  • degree
  • earth science
  • ekman pumping
  • ekman transport
  • hourly
  • latitude
  • longitude
  • ncdc
  • noaa
  • noaa ncei
  • ocean upwelling
  • ocean winds
  • oceans
  • sea
  • sea surface winds
  • sea winds
  • surface
  • surface winds
  • time
  • wind
  • wind stress
  • wind-driven circulation
  • winds
  • windstress
  • x-component
  • x_wind
  • y-component
  • y_wind
isopen False
metadata_created 2025-09-23T19:26:40.577993
metadata_modified 2025-09-23T19:26:40.577999
notes Gridded and blended sea surface vector winds 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. Include (u,v) means and scalar mean speed w for comparison
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title NOAA/NCDC Blended 6-Hourly Global 0.25° Sea Surface Winds, 1987-2011, Lon+/-180