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Ocean Vector and Wind Momentum Products

Project PI: Dr. Lisan Yu (Email: lyu@whoi.edu)

Data sets are 0.25-degree gridded, daily and monthly means from July 1987 onward:

  • wind speed at 10m
  • zonal wind at 10m (positive eastward
  • meridional wind at 10m (positive northward)
  • wind stress magnitude
  • zonal wind stress (positive eastward)
  • meridional wind stress (positive northward)
  • wind stress curl (positive upward)
  • convergence/divergence (positive upward)
  • vorticity (positive upward)

The wind and momentum flux products on 1-degree grid are also made available to support the 1-degree global heat flux analysis. The 1-degree products are the 16-point averages of the 0.25-degree products.