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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:	no mask   add a mask to the list
Latitude:	°N - °N
Longitude:	°E - °E
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

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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

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Average over blocks of longitude and latitude grid cells

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If you really want to get it here, TAO zonal windstress is available as a netcdf file (size 7.10079 MB).

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