Directional Bias of TAO Daily Buoy Wind Vectors in the Central Equatorial Pacific Ocean from November 2008 to January 2010

This article documents a systematic bias in surface wind directions between the TAO buoy measurements at 0°, 170°W and the ECMWF analysis and forecasts. This bias was of the order 10° and persisted from November 2008 to January 2010, which was consistent with a post-recovery calibration drift in the...

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Main Authors: Ge Peng, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, H Paul Freitag, Carl J Schreck III
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2014-07-01
Series:Data Science Journal
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Online Access:http://datascience.codata.org/articles/6