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Home — Field: ICOADS 3.0 zonal wind

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ICOADS 3.0 zonal wind
more information ICOADS 2-degree Standard
X axis: whole world in 180 2.00° steps, first point at 1.00° E, last point at 359.00° E
Y axis: regular grid with 90 -2.00° steps, first point at 89.00° N, last point at 89.00° S

Monthly data available from Jan1800 to Jan2024 (2689 months)
Variable uwnd (u-wind Monthly Mean at Surface) in m/s
Full metadata.

Get grid points, average area or generate subset
Mask:   add a mask to the list help
Latitude: °N - °N help
Longitude: °E - °E
Boundaries:
Make: average max min set of grid points subset of the field help
Demand at least: % valid points in this region help
helpApply monthly high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value months
requiring at least % valid data
helpApply year-on-year high/low-pass filter
filter
cut-off value years
requiring at least % valid data
helpCreate a field with lower time resolution
First fill missing data: ignore, climatology, trend, persistence.
Then apply: -month running mean with direction
Then apply new time scale:
New variable: of zonal wind
Minimum: % valid data
Threshold:
helpCreate a field with lower spatial resolution
Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

Construct a statistical forecast model from this field

Compute anomalies
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Compute zonal mean
Please consider downloading this field from the authoritative site.
If you really want to get it here, ICOADS 3.0 zonal wind is available as a netcdf file (size 83.1114 MB).
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