GCOS Essential Climate Variables - Atmopheric

Facilitating Access to Global Observing Systems Data and Information

GCOS Essential Climate Variables (ECV)
Atmospheric Surface/Wind Speed & Direction

Wind Speed: Ratio of the distance covered by the air to the time taken to cover it. The instantaneous speed corresponds to the case of an infinitely small time interval. The mean speed corresponds to the case of a finite time interval. It is one component of wind velocity, the other being wind direction). (From the AMS Glossary of Meteorology)

[ECV Matrix Main Page] [About the ECV Matrix] [Reference Documents] [Contact] [Updated July 26, 2010]

Non-satellite or in-situ

Satellite

Global Surface Summary of Day Data (GSOD) (NOAA/NCDC) (data) (metadata) (station list) (data documentation) (contact)

Tropical Moored Buoys Data (TAO/TRITON (Pacific); PIRATA (Atlantic); and RAMA (Indian Ocean) Arrays (NOAA/NDBC) (data) (metadata) (data documentation) (contact)

[Home]