Visualizations by
Greg Shirah
Released on February 3, 2003
Sea surface wind anomalies (based on QuikSCAT data) from 31 December 2002 illustrate the wind patterns that exist during a North Atlantic Oscillation. The wind data has been processed using the Variational Analysis Method (VAM).
GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation:
Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0