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Earth Science | Oceans | Ocean Winds | Wind Stress
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This 'Wind stress of Australia' dataset was derived from global coverage 'netCDF' files produced by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Re-analysis Project. The means are calculated for the 23 year period from 1976 to 1998 inclusive. The National Center for Environmental Prediction and the National Center for Atmospheric Research are re-analysing the last 40 years of global met. data using present methods to produce a best-possible hindcast of atmospheric conditions through that period. The grid spacing is 1.875 deg Longitude by (about) 1.9 deg Latitude.
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The European Centers for Medium range Weather Forecasts (EMCW) Ocean Re-Analysis System 3(ORA-S3) datasets, created by the synthesis of surface and subsurface ocean observations (temperature, salinity, altimeter derived sea-level anomalies) , surface fluxes from atmospheric analysis and reanalysis, and a general circulation ocean model(HOPE). ORA-S3 was created and is used to provide initial conditions for coupled model forecasts as well as seasonal & decadal forecasting predictions within the ENSEMBLES project. The CSIRO version of the ORA-S3 dataset is a concatenation of the individual monthly variables into single netcdf files for the time period 1959-2006 at 256 lat & 195 Lon positions with 29 Levels. It has also been processed to include calculated Anomaly, Climatological and Seasonal forms of this data. There are 10 Monthly files 13.0GB, 10 Anomaly files 13.0GB, 10 Climatology files 557MB, and 10 Seasonal files 9.81GB.
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The dataset comprises output from 10 general circulation ocean models contributing to the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The models span the globe however a subset encompassing the Indonesian Throughflow and Leeuwin Current region in the East Indian Ocean has been extracted. Ocean horizontal resolutions of the models range from approximately 1 degree to 2.5 degree, and vertical resolutions expand from the surface to their maximum depths. Outputs cover the period from late 1800's to 2100 (2200 for some models) with monthly outputs of zonal and meridioanl current velocity, wind speed and stress of the full 3-dimensional fields.