%0 Journal Article
%T GRIDDED SURFACE WIND-STRESS PRODUCT OVER THE WORLD OCEAN CONSTRUCTED BY SATELLITE SCATTEROMETER DATA AND ITS COMPARISON WITH NWP PRODUCTS
%A Kutsuwada
%A Kunio
%A Kasahara
%A Minoru
%A Aoki
%A Kunihiro
%J Gayana (Concepci¨®n)
%D 2004
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%R 10.4067/S0717-65382004000300006
%X products of gridded surface wind and wind-stress vectors over the world ocean are constructed by satellite scatterometer (ers-1/2 and qscat/seawinds) data with highly temporal and spatial resolutions. data of the ers-1/2 and the qscat/seawinds cover periods of 1992-2000 and since august 1999, respectively, and permit us to establish a long-term time series. we make validation for our products by inter-comparison with in-situ data (tao and ndbc buoys), and find that our qscat product has high reliability in the almost whole area around buoy locations. for areas where there are no in-situ data such as the high-latitude southern ocean, we also make inter-comparison of our products with numerical weather prediction(nwp) ones (ncep and ecmwf). results reveal that there are significant differences in the westerly region of 40ˇă- 60ˇăs, suggesting that the wind-stress magnitudes calculated from the ncep reanalysis 6-hourly product are overestimated in the high latitudes
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