Blended Sea Winds

<div>This map contains data on Sea Winds, as collected from the NOAA National Climate Data Center (NCDC)</div><div><br /></div><div>The Blended Sea Winds contain globally gridded, high resolution ocean surface vector winds and wind stresses on a global 0.25° grid, and multiple time resolutions of 6-hourly, daily, monthly, and 11-year (1995-2005) climatological monthlies. The period of record is 9 July 1987 - present. The wind speeds were generated by blending observations from multiple satellites (up to six satellites since June 2002; Figure 2). The wind directions came from two sources depending on the products: for the research products the source is the NCEP Reanalysis 2 (NRA-2) and for near-real-time products the source is the ECMWF NWP. The wind directions were interpolated onto the blended speed grids.</div><div><br /></div><div>Source: <a href='http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/air-sea/seawinds.html' style='line-height: 1.38461538461538;' target='_blank'>NOAA NCDC</a></div><div><br /></div>