A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations

JIANG Xing-wei; SONG Qing-tao

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JIANG Xing-wei, SONG Qing-tao. A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2010, 32(6): 83-90.

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JIANG Xing-wei, SONG Qing-tao. A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2010, 32(6): 83-90.

JIANG Xing-wei, SONG Qing-tao. A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2010, 32(6): 83-90.

Citation:

JIANG Xing-wei, SONG Qing-tao. A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations[J]. Haiyang Xuebao, 2010, 32(6): 83-90.

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A climatology of sea surface wind speed and wind stress fields constructed from scatterometer observations

National Satellite Ocean Application Service, State Oceanic Administration, Beijing 100081, China

Received Date: 2010-07-01
Rev Recd Date: 2010-10-20

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A climatology of surface wind speed, wind stress and wind stress curl fields on a global 0.25°×0.25° grid (named SCAT) is constructed using 11.5 a surface wind observations from scatterometers NSCAT, QuikSCAT and SeaWinds on ADEOS-II. The L2B swath observations from each sensor were processed with quality control procedure, spatially low-pass filtered to remove spurious points, and then averaged as monthly fields.The SCAT is entirely based on satellite observations with the highest temporal and spatial sampling frequencies to date. The SCAT stress and stress curl fields reveal many mesoscale and small-scale features near the coastal regions of China that are of great importance to oceanography, climate studies, marine meteorology, fishery and ocean engineering. As a preliminary study of China’s ocean satellite mission "HY-2",The SCAT data can be obtained from the National Satellite Ocean Applications Service,the State Oceanic Administration.
- scatterometer,
- sea surface winds,
- wind stress,
- climatology

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