ECV Products and Requirements for Upper-air Wind Speed and Direction
These products and requirements reflect the Implementation Plan 2016 (GCOS-200). GCOS is reviewing and will update the requirements until 2022. More information on: gcos.wmo.int.
| PRODUCT | DEFINITION | FREQ. | RES. | REQUIRED MEASUREMENT UNCERTAINTY | STABILITY | STANDARDS/ REFERENCES |
| Upper-air wind retrievals | 3D field of the horizontal vector component (2D) of the 3D wind vector (m/s) | 1hr | 10km/ 0.5km | 2m/s, 20deg | 0.5m/s, 5deg |
