COAPS QuikSCAT Global Daily Pseudo-Stress Vectors using Variational
Method with Generalized Cross Validation
Daily fields of pseudo-stress are produced using a variational
approach (direct minimization) with tuning parameters determined using
Generalized Cross-Validation (GCV). These products are on a 1x1°
grid. The scatterometer winds, and these gridded winds, are calibrated to a
height of 10 m.
This approach utilizes the only QuikSCAT observations filtered by the
NOF rain flag
and should be considered as a research quality data set.
A manuscript is in preparation describing these data.
From this interface, you can download individual files, files grouped by
month, or the entire collection of gridded QuikSCAT data produced here at
COAPS; each for a particular 6-hour period, set of periods, or all.
These files are in NetCDF format, which can be obtained from
UNIDATA.
Routines to read the NetCDF formatted files can be found
here.
