The data are pacific ocean pseudo stress from ship reports on a 84x30 grid, 1 grid/month. The analyses are the quick-look product based on reports coming in over the GTS (late reports are not used in this data set, but are included in our research product, based on the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) surface marine observations data set). The data are in (meters/sec)**2 with east = positive and north = positive. Any tau x and tau y with a value of 999.0 is over land. The data are on a 2 by 2 degree grid. There are 84 points e-w and 30 points n-s. tau x( 1, 1) and tau y( 1, 1) are centered at 124e and 29s tau x( 2, 1) " " are centered at 126e and 29s . . tau x(83, 1) " " are centered at 72w and 29s tau x(84, 1) " " are centered at 70w and 29s tau x( 1, 2) " " are centered at 124e and 27s tau x( 1, 3) " " are centered at 124e and 25s . . tau x( 1,29) " " are centered at 124e and 27n tau x( 1,30) " " are centered at 124e and 29n The following code is an example of reading the data: program readwd dimension taux(84,30),tauy(84,30) read 1 month wind stress grid read (1,10) month,iyear,taux,tauy 10 format (2i5,14f5.1,/(16f5.1)) . . . . . end -------------------------------- REFERENCES: Legler, D.M., and J.J. O'Brien, 1988; Tropical Pacific wind stress analysis for TOGA, IOC Time series of ocean measurements,IOC Technical Series 33, Volume 4, UNESCO. -------------------------------- James N. Stricherz M.S. B174, Mesoscale Air-Sea Interaction Group The Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-3041 TELEMAIL : J.OBRIEN/OMNET Internet : stricher@masig.fsu.edu (128.186.28.11) Bitnet : stricher%masig.fsu.edu@cunyvm Updated: 25 Jan 1993