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    • NOAA/NCDC Blended Daily Global 0.25° Sea Surface Winds, 1987-2011

    Metadata Updated: June 10, 2023

    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, daily resolution in this dataset; 6-hourly 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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    License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Date September 4, 2022
    Metadata Created Date December 19, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
    Reference Date(s) September 4, 2022 (creation)
    Frequency Of Update

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date September 4, 2022
    Metadata Created Date December 19, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date June 10, 2023
    Reference Date(s) September 4, 2022 (creation)
    Responsible Party NOAA NCEI (Point of Contact)
    Contact Email
    Guid ncdcOwDly
    Access Constraints
    Bbox East Long 180.0
    Bbox North Lat 89.75
    Bbox South Lat -89.75
    Bbox West Long -180.0
    Coupled Resource [{"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}, {"title": [], "href": ["#DataIdentification"], "uuid": []}]
    Frequency Of Update
    Harvest Object Id 3b5c141c-10b9-4e41-84b9-909192844efe
    Harvest Source Id 817069b7-5f4e-4664-9e6b-615af3dfcf2d
    Harvest Source Title Pacific Fisheries Environmental Laboratory
    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 Language eng
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[-180.0, -89.75], [180.0, -89.75], [180.0, 89.75], [-180.0, 89.75], [-180.0, -89.75]]]}
    Progress
    Spatial Data Service Type ERDDAP griddap
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 1987-07-09T09:00:00Z
    Temporal Extent End 2011-03-16T09:00:00Z

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