IGOSS TOGA-TAO.cdf va: meridional wind anomaly data

meridional wind anomaly from IGOSS TOGA-TAO.cdf: Wind vectors and sea surface temperatures from the TOGA-TAO array in the tropical Pacific.

Independent Variables (Grids)

depth
grid: /depth (m) ordered [ (0.0)] :grid
time
grid: /time (months since 1960-01-01) ordered (Jan 1977) to (Oct 2014) by 1.0 N= 454 pts :grid
Longitude
grid: /X (degree_east) ordered [ (130E) (137E) (143E) (147E) (154E) (155E) (156E) (158E) (161E) (165E) (167E) (168E) (170E) (180) (176W) (170W) (157W) (155W) (147W) (140W) (137W) (132W) (125W) (110W) (95W)] :grid
Latitude
grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered [ (9S) (8S) (7S) (6S) (5S) (4S) (3S) (2S) (1S) (0) (1N) (2N) (3N) (3.5N) (5N) (6N) (7N) (8N) (9N) (10N) (11N) (12N)] :grid

Other Info

CE
10
CI
1
CS
-10
CSCALE
0.035
datatype
realarraytype
epic_code
423
FORTRAN_format
F9.4
generic_name
v
missing_value
1.00000004E35
scale_max
10.0
scale_min
-10.0
units
m s-1
standard units*
meter second-1
history
[(Mean surface wind vectors (m/s) and sea surface temperature (C) as well as anomalies in the tropical Pacific.) (COADS Wind and Reynold-Smith (1994) climatologies.) (USA-FRANCE-JAPAN-KOREA-TAIWAN)]

References

Mangum,L.J., H.P. Freitag, and M.J. McPhaden.TOGA-TAO Array Sampling Schemes and Sensor Evaluations. Proceedings of the Oceans '94 OSATES, Brest, France, 13-16 September 1994, Vol II, pp. 402-406.

Soreide, N.N., D.C. McClurg, W.H. Zhu, M.J. McPhaden, L.J. Mangum, and D.W. Denbo, Distribution and Display of TOGA-TAO Buoy Data, Proceedings of Oceans 94, OSATES, Brest, France, 13-16 September 1994, Vol II

Last updated: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 21:51:22 GMT

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