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COAPS NSCAT 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-deg grid. The scatterometer winds, and these gridded winds, are calibrated to a height of 10 m. This approach utilizes the NSCAT overpasses as well as our weighted 8-day fields, and should be considered as an improved (research quality) data set.

A manuscript is in preparation describing these data.

These files are in NetCDF format, which can be obtained from UNIDATA.