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Blended global satellite mean wind field, 6 hourly delivery

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Product description(2007-11-15)
WHAT ?PRODUCT-ID

CERSAT-GLOBAL-BLENDED-OBS
PRODUCT TYPE

Forcing fields

OUTPUT TYPE

Gridded (analysis)
OVERVIEW

General information: The Blended Mean Wind Field is a global product (80S to 80N and 180W to 180E) including wind components (meridionnal and zonal), wind module, wind stress and the correspon...
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PARAMETERS GROUP
(from BODC)
PARAMETERS (parameter, unit, convention)
  • eastward_wind,m s-1,CF
  • northward_wind,m s-1,CF
  • surface_downward_eastward_stress,Pa,CF
  • surface_downward_northward_stress,Pa,CF
WHERE ?GEOGRAPHICAL COVERAGE
80.0
-180.0180.0
-80.0
GEOGRAPHICAL SCALE

Global scale
SPATIAL RESOLUTION

0.25 degr
VERTICAL COVERAGE

from 10 to 10 meters.
WHEN ?TEMPORAL COVERAGESince 2004-04-01 - onGoingTEMPORAL RESOLUTION
PROCESS/ UPDATEUPDATEDcontinual
BY (supply center)
name : CERSAT
email adress : fpaf@ifremer.fr
web site : http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat

Delivery

ServiceResourceAverage Volume/releaseFormatLicence/
conditions		Distributor
ftp
4 Mb per file, compressed using bzip2FTP/netCDFFree
name : IFREMER
web site : http://www.ifremer.fr/anglais/
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http
N/AHTTP/netCDFFree
name : MERSEA/MIM
web site : http://www.mersea.eu.org/Information/MerseaInformationSystem.html
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http
N/ADAPfree
name : IFREMER
web site : http://www.ifremer.fr/anglais/
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Documentation

TitleOnline ResourcePublication
Near Real Time Blended Surface Windftp://ftp.ifremer.fr/ifremer/cersat/products/gridded/mwf-blended/documentation/BlendedWind-Doc_27112006.pdf2006-11-27



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