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MEaSUREs/OSWV  

Definition

  • Ocean surface winds and wind stress are key components of the Earth system. They are a major driver of the ocean circulation and affect the air-sea interactions, providing fuel to the weather systems by modulating the sensible and latent heat fluxes. Understanding these interactions is critical for improving weather forecasting on a variety of spatial and temporal scales—from the isolated convective cores, to the organized mesoscale systems, to hurricanes, to the seasonal and intraseasonal phenomena such as Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), El Niño, and the trends and variability in the large-scale Hadley cell. (en)

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Change note

  • 2022-05-06 14:44:02.0 [sritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (MEaSUREs/OSWV [9edaf6a9-e822-4af3-982b-9213aafa63b8,908989] - M - O [a31c2828-9b6d-44e9-b6ad-7ae81030f322,903029]);
  • 2022-05-06 14:45:44.0 [sritz] insert AltLabel (id: null category: primary text: MEaSUREs ESDR of the Ocean Surface Vector Winds, Stress, and Their Dynamically-Significant Derivatives language code: en);
  • 2022-05-06 14:47:03.0 [sritz] insert Definition (id: null text: Ocean surface winds and wind stress are key components of the Earth system. They are a major driver of the ocean circulation and affect the air-sea interactions, providing fuel to the weather systems by modulating the sensible and latent heat fluxes. Understanding these interactions is critical for improving weather forecasting on a variety of spatial and temporal scales—from the isolated convective cores, to the organized mesoscale systems, to hurricanes, to the seasonal and intraseasonal phenomena such as Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), El Niño, and the trends and variability in the large-scale Hadley cell. language code: en);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/9edaf6a9-e822-4af3-982b-9213aafa63b8

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