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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 cd interface, you can download the 2001 daily QuikSCAT files. Other files grouped by month, or the entire collection of gridded QuikSCAT data produced here at
COAPS can be downloaded from our web site
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These files are in netCDF format. You can obtain a copy of the latest released version of netCDF software using a WWW browser or anonymous FTP from
ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf.tar.Z
Routines to read the NetCDF formatted files can be found
here.
Feedback to Dr. Mark Bourassa: bourassa@coaps.fsu.edu
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