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    • SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton)

    Metadata Updated: December 6, 2023

    Contains monthly averaged ocean surface wind stress derived from Seasat-A Scatterometer (SASS) wind retrievals, from July 1978 until October 1978, gridded on a 2.5-degree by 2.5 degree global grid. The vector average wind stress is stored in units of dynes per centimeter squared (dyn/cm^2). Data is provided in formatted ASCII text. The primary data set used to construct these wind stress fields consists of 96 days of SASS vector winds supplied by Robert Atlas at GSFC. The directional ambiguities in the raw SASS data had been objectively removed using the GSFC Laboratory for Atmospheric Sciences atmospheric general circulation model.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. 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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    Metadata Created Date April 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 27, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date December 6, 2023
    Publisher NASA/JPL/PODAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2617197622-POCLOUD
    Data First Published 2009-06-15
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2011-01-21
    Category geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation GSFC/JPL. 1996-04-18. SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton). Version 1. SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton). PO.DAAC. Archived by National Aeronautics and Space Administration, U.S. Government, PO.DAAC. https://doi.org/10.5067/SSCH3-01XM1. https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/pub/documents/dataset_docs/seasat_chelton.html. GSFC/JPL, PO.DAAC, 1996-04-18, SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton), https://podaac-tools.jpl.nasa.gov/drive/files/pub/documents/dataset_docs/seasat_chelton.html.
    Creator GSFC/JPL
    Graphic Preview Description Thumbnail
    Graphic Preview File https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/Podaac/thumbnails/CHELTON_SEASAT_SASS_L3.jpg
    Harvest Object Id e66f2a7a-4c2a-46a8-8ef0-b5255f211ec8
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.5067/SSCH3-01XM1
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -180.0 -70.0 180.0 70.0
    Program Code 026:001
    Release Place PO.DAAC
    Series Name SEASAT SCATTEROMETER DERIVED GLOBAL GRIDDED MONTHLY OCEAN WIND STRESS (Chelton)
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 95ed7e98c456083542074c9e99e3d312b7b1ad4f91c94d4ec57829fd462b97c2
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1978-07-07T00:00:00Z/1978-10-10T23:59:59.999Z

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