| VARIABLE: | "Ocean Surface Currents" |
| DATATYPE: | "Monthly Mean" |
| DATASUBTYPE: | "unfiltered" |
| GEORANGE: | "20.5E to 419.5E, 69.5S to 69.5N" |
| PERIOD: | "1992-10-21 to 2008-08-06" |
| ANOM_MEAN_PERIOD: | "1993-01-01 to 2007-12-31" |
| version: | 2006.0 |
| description: | "Sea Surface Velocity" |
| source: | "Gary Lagerloef, ESR (lager@esr.org) and Fabrice Bonjean (bonjean@esr.org)" |
| contact: | "Fabrice Bonjean (bonjean@esr.org) or John T. Gunn (gunn@esr.org)" |
| company: | "Earth & Space Research, Seattle, WA" |
| reference1: | "Bonjean F. and G.S.E. Lagerloef, 2002 ,\"Diagnostic model and analysis of the surface currents in the tropical Pacific ocean\", J. Phys. Oceanogr., 32, 2,938-2,954" |
| date: | "06-Aug-2008" |
| CREATION_DATE: | "15:00 06-Aug-2008" |
| note: | "Longitude extends from 20.5 E to 419.5 E to avoid a break in major ocean basins. Data repeats in overlap region." |
| time: | Array of 32 bit Integers [time = 0..190]
units: "day since 1992-10-15 00:00:00" |
| depth: | Array of 32 bit Reals [depth = 0..0]
units: "meter" |
| latitude: | Array of 32 bit Reals [latitude = 0..139]
units: "degrees_north" |
| longitude: | Array of 32 bit Reals [longitude = 0..399]
units: "degrees_east" |
| u: | Grid units: "meter/sec" long_name: "Ocean Surface Zonal Currents" missing_value: NaN
|
| v: | Grid units: "meter/sec" long_name: "Ocean Surface Meridional Currents" missing_value: NaN
|
| u_anom: | Grid units: "meter/sec" long_name: "Ocean Surface Zonal Currents Anomaly" missing_value: NaN
|
| v_anom: | Grid units: "meter/sec" long_name: "Ocean Surface Meridional Currents Anomaly" missing_value: NaN
|