TOVS Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) Derived Arctic Winds

The TIROS-N Operational Vertical Sounder (TOVS) Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) derived wind dataset consists of gridded daily wind fields north of 60 degrees latitude. The dataset is gridded at 100km spatial resolution on an Equal-Area Scalable Earth Grid (EASE-Grid). Daily Northern Hemisphere data are available from July 1979 through December 2005. The dataset is derived from TOVS Path-P temperature profiles, combined with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Reanalysis-1 10m winds and surface pressure. The dataset was derived based on the method described in Zou and Van Woert (2002) for the Antarctic and extended to the Arctic region in Francis et al. (2005). The wind vector is calculated for 7 levels at each grid point using the standard thermal wind equation, TOVS temperature profiles and the NCEP 10m winds. The data is further corrected using a Lagrange Multiplier approach subject to a mass conservation constraint appropriate for the pole. The dataset was derived at the Institute for Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. It includes NCEP 10m winds (corrected) and surface pressure linearly interpolated to the EASE grid, as well as derived wind data at 7 levels.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1979-07-01T00:00:00Z
    End:  2005-12-31T23:59:59Z

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1979-07-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Range End 2005-12-31T23:59:59Z
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat 90.00000
Bounding Box South Lat 60.00000
Bounding Box West Long -180.00000
Bounding Box East Long 180.00000
Spatial Representation grid
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Documentation #1 : Francis_TOVS_winds_Jcli_final.pdf

Documentation #2 : readme.txt

Documentation #3 : Zou_VanWoert_2002.pdf

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Resource Format NetCDF: Network Common Data Form (application/x-netcdf)
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
Asset Size 2846 MB
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Author Jennifer Francis
Elias Hunter
Cheng-Zhi Zou
Publisher UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory
Publication Date 2009-04-21T13:29:13
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier 106.214
Resource Version 1.0
Topic Category geoscientificInformation
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2024-02-07T22:48:22Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.eol::106.214
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Jennifer Francis, Elias Hunter, Cheng-Zhi Zou. (2009). TOVS Polar Pathfinder (Path-P) Derived Arctic Winds. 1.0. UCAR/NCAR - Earth Observing Laboratory. https://data.eol.ucar.edu//dataset/106.214. Accessed 02 November 2024.

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