Datasets / OW SSMI Wind Speed


OW SSMI Wind Speed

Published By National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce

Issued almost 10 years ago

US
beta

Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The dataset contains satellite-derived wind speed and wind direction measurements collected by means of the SSM/I microwave radiometer onboard the NOAA DMSP satellite constellation. The data is available at 3-day and weekly intervals at a spatial resolution of 0.25 degrees. The geographic coverage is global, and the temporal coverage ranges from 2004-2009.