ECMWF Wind Stress Monthly Means

SOURCE: Data Support Section Dataset ds110.1


FORMAT: CCM2 History Tape.

GRID:   Global - T42 Gaussian (128 x 64)

LEVELS: Sea Surface

FIELDS: Description                     Name    Units   
        ---------------------------------------------------
	Stress in X-direction		TAUX	dynes/cm**2
	Stress in Y-direction		TAUY	dynes/cm**2
	Stress Magnitude		TAUT	dynes/cm**2
	Curl of Stress			CURL	10**9 dynes/cm**3
	Zonal Wind			U	m/s
	Meridional Wind			V	m/s
	Wind Magnitude			UT	m/s
      Plus the following standard deviations:
					STAUX
					STAUY
					STAUT
					SCURL
					SU
					SV
					SUT

TIMES:  One mean per month.

MSS Directory: /TRENBERT/WS/

Filename: ET42yymm  where yy=year, mm=month
	One month (1 time step) per volume.
	e.g. ET428001 contains data for January 1980.

Current holdings: January 1980 - December 1989

Other Products Derived from this Dataset:

• Long-Term Means (Climatologies)

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