GMFD
From variable 3.8
Summary of observation-based historical datasets with surface wind speed and/or direction available
- description of data RDA Princeton
- reference Sheffield et al. (2006)
- source
- Princeton University
- data type
- Re-gridded reanalysis with corrections
- spatial domain
- Global (land only)
- spatial resolution
- 0.25°× 0.25°
- temporal coverage
- 1948-2016
- time step
- 3h;Daily; Monthly
- data format
- NetCDF
- comments
- This data is an end product (will not be updated). Combines NCEP reanalysis with observation-based datasets (namely the monthly CRU TS3.24.01 gridded at 0.5 horizontal spatial resolution). Provides surface wind speed.