ERA5

From variable 3.8
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with surface wind speed and/or direction available
reference

source
ECMWF
data type
Global atmospheric reanalysis
spatial domain
Global
spatial resolution
0.25° x 0.25°
temporal coverage
1950 - present
time step
Hourly;Daily;Monthly
data format
GRIB; NetCDF
comments
5th generation reanalysis. Provides: Instantaneous 10m wind gust, 10m v and u component of wind, 10m v and u component of neutral wind, and 100m v and u component of wind.