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— Field: TAO zonal windstress
Field
TAO zonal windstress
tau_x computed with a simplistic formula
X axis: irregular grid of 19 points at 137.00 143.00 147.00 154.00 156.00 158.00 161.00 165.00 167.00 170.00 180.00 190.00 205.00 213.00 220.00 228.00 235.00 250.00 265.00
Y axis: irregular grid of 10 points at -8.00 -5.00 -2.00 0.00 2.00 4.00 5.00 7.00 8.00 9.00
1-daily data available from 01Jan1980 to 09Oct2023 ( 16021 times)
Variable tx (zonal wind stress) in N/m2
Full metadata
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Mask:
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Latitude:
°N -
°N
Longitude:
°E -
°E
Year range:
-
Boundaries:
halfway grid points
interpolated
Make:
average
max
min
set of grid points
subset of the field
Demand at least:
% valid points in this region
Units:
convert to mb
leave in N/m2
Apply daily high/low-pass filter
high-pass
low-pass
running-mean
1st order LOESS
2nd order LOESS
filter
cut-off value
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requiring at least
% valid data
Apply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
high-pass
low-pass
running-mean
1st order LOESS
2nd order LOESS
filter
cut-off value
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requiring at least
% valid data
Create a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data:
ignore,
climatology,
trend,
persistence.
Then apply:
-day running mean with direction
backward
centred
forward
Then apply new time scale:
keep same time scale
annual (Jul-Jun)
annual (Jan-Dec)
biannual
seasonal
monthly
10-daily
5-daily
New variable:
mean
sd
sum
sum above
sum below
number
min
time of min
max
time of max
first time
last time
of zonal windstress
Minimum:
% valid data
Threshold:
no cut
less than
greater than
N/m2
percentile
normal 1971-2000
Create a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of
longitude and
latitude grid cells
Area with extremes
Compute area with annual
-day average
minimum or
maximum extreme beyond 1 in 10 yr return values.
Compute zonal mean
Compute annual cycle
Download TAO zonal windstress
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want to get it here, TAO zonal windstress is available as a
netcdf file
(size 7.10079 MB).
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