Swaths of stresses are calculated directly from scatterometer
backscatter, rather than indirectly through scatterometer winds.
The NSCAT project's 25km resolution swath data sets (L1.7) are used to
calculate
kinematic stress magnitudes (25 km resolution). Directions
are assumed to be equal to the scatterometer wind directions. Fields in the
data set are kinematic stress magnitude, stress direction, time, latitude,
and longitude. The data sets are also resorted from the original orbit by
orbit organization, to daily observations. The data set should be
considered research quality. A paper describing the technique for
calculating the kinematic stresses (Weissman and Graber, 1999) is in
press.
From this interface, you can download individual files, files grouped by
month, or the entire collection of gridded NSCAT data produced here at
COAPS.
NetCDF libraries are required to access the data, and can be obtained from
UNIDATA.
If you are uncertain what you need to do to access a compressed tar
file, a guide is available.
You may also download the data as indivdiual daily files:
