Data Sources for Surface Wind Speed and Direction
This list provides sources for openly accessible data sets with worldwide coverage for which metadata is available. It is curated by the respective GCOS ECV Steward(s). The list does not claim to be complete. Anyone with a suitable dataset who wishes it to be added to this list should contact the GCOS Secretariat.
In Situ:
- Integrated Surface Database (ISD) of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/isd/data-access
- Global Historical Climatology Network Daily (GHCN-Daily) of the National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
https://data.noaa.gov/dataset/global-historical-climatology-network-dai…
- Hadley Centre Integrated Surface Database (HadISD)
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/hadobs/hadisd
- International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS)
https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds548.0/
- Wave and Anemometer-based Sea Surface Wind (WASWind)
http://www.dpac.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp/tokinaga/waswind.html
Reanalysis:
- REANALYSES.ORG (Inventory for Reanalysis)
Satellite:
- Satellite ECV Inventory by the CEOS/CGMS Working Group on Climate (WGClimate)