Climatology: COADS winds
COADSTen-meter east and north wind speeds are acquired from the COADS data set [Woodruff et al., 1998]. The COADS data sets are comprised of in situ observations of wind speed, atmospheric pressure, water/air temperature, etc., mainly from ships of opportunity, that have been acquired, quality-controlled, and summarized statistically on a monthly basis on 1 degree squares. These monthly summary groups (MSGs) from the years 1975-97 are taken for the northwest Atlantic region and split into months. The resulting data are block averaged onto a 1X1 degree grid (using data for which the sample size is greater than 20), smoothed with a 9-point Laplacian filter, and then linearly interpolated onto both the large-scale and climatology model grids for computations.COADS Information COADS block data |
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