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ncdump -h uv20050306.nc
netcdf uv20050306 {
dimensions:
zlev = 1 ;
time = 4 ;
lat = 719 ;
lon = 1440 ;
variables:
long time(time) ;
time:long_name = "Center Time of the Data" ;
time:units = "hours since 1978-01-01 00:00:00" ;
float zlev(zlev) ;
zlev:long_name = "height above sea level" ;
zlev:units = "meters" ;
float lat(lat) ;
lat:long_name = "latitude" ;
lat:units = "degrees_north" ;
lat:grids = "uniform grids from -89.75 to 89.75 by 0.25" ;
float lon(lon) ;
lon:long_name = "longitude" ;
lon:units = "degrees_east" ;
lon:grids = "uniform grids from 0.00 to 359.75 by 0.25" ;
float u(time, zlev, lat, lon) ;
u:long_name = "Sea Surface Wind: x-component" ;
u:units = "m/s" ;
u:_FillValue = -9999.f ;
float v(time, zlev, lat, lon) ;
v:long_name = "Sea Surface Wind: y-component" ;
v:units = "m/s" ;
v:_FillValue = -9999.f ;
// global attributes:
:Conventions = "COARDS, CF-1.0, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0" ;
:title = "NOAA/NCDC Blended 6-hourly 0.25-degree Sea Surface Winds" ;
:source = "Multiple satellite observations: DMSP SSMI F08, F10, F11, F13,F14 F15; TMI; QuikSCAT; AMSR-E; Direction from NCEP Reanalysis-2" ;
:summary = "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, 6-hourly resolution in this dataset; daily and monthly are also available in other directories; See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html and links within for details. Include (u,v) means and scalar mean speed w for comparison" ;
:Keywords = "sea winds, ocean winds, sea surface winds, air-sea interaction, air-sea flux, wind-driven circulation, Ekman pumping, Ekman transport, ocean upwelling, wind stress, windstress" ;
:references = "links at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html" ;
:History = "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" ;
:institution = "NOAA NESDIS National Climatic Data Center" ;
:Contact = "Huai-Min.Zhang AT noaa.gov or satorder AT noaa.gov; ph:1+828-271-4090" ;
:Acknowledgment = "The gridded data were generated from the multiple satellite observations of DOD, NOAA and NASA (and future others) and wind retrievals of the Remote Sensing Systems, Inc. (http://www.remss.com), using scientific methods such as objective analysis (OA). The OA is only truly objective when the needed statistics are completely known, which may not be always the case." ;
:Data_Calendar_Date = "2005-03-06" ;
} |
