MERRA2
From variable 3.8
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with surface wind speed and/or direction available
- reference Gelaro et al. (2017)
- source
- NASA
- data type
- Global atmospheric reanalysis
- spatial domain
- Global
- spatial resolution
- ½° latitude x ⅝° longitude
- temporal coverage
- 1980/01 to present
- time step
- Hourly; Daily; Monthly
- data format
- NetCDF
- comments
- 2nd generation reanalysis. Provides 2 m, 10 m and 50 m eastward and northward wind, surface wind speed and Maximum surface wind speed.