Data · dataset · 2026
NSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds (Version 1.0)
Listed in National Center for Atmospheric Research
Ocean surface wind vector components and wind stress curl data products are derived from spatial blending of high-resolution satellite data (NASA Scatterometer - NSCAT) and global weather center reanalyses (NCEP), resulting in high temporal and spatial resolution datasets (6-hourly, and 0.5 degree).
Description
This global dataset spans 12 months, August 1996 through July 1997. The NSCAT scatterometer data is oriented along polar-orbit satellite swaths.
The double-sided instrument yielded two swaths. Each of them about 600 kilometers wide with a 350 km nadir gap and at 50 km resolution. The NCEP data consists of global, 6-hourly reanalysis fields on T62 Gaussian grid with approximate resolution of 1.8 degrees.
Links
Get the data
- Resource Homepage doi.org/10.5065/32nx-qm68 ↗
download · DOI / persistent id · from data ucar edu
Where it is published
- data.ucar.edu /dataset/nscat-ncep-blended-ocean-winds-version-1-0 ↗
National Center for Atmospheric Research dataset page
landing page · from data ucar edu
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.ucar.edu/api/3/action/package_show?id=0581bb3e-8247-4da2-a4ac-33f53c619… ↗
metadata API · from data ucar edu
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 7 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| National Center for Atmospheric Research | 0581bb3e-8247-4da2-a4ac-33f53c6194cd | 13 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /notes |
| publication_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 | /title |
| updated_date | source · data ucar edu | connector:data_ucar_edu@1.0.0 |