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For more information on the blended wind products, see CoRA's Blended Winds, or NCAR's archived DS744.4 - QSCAT/NCEP Blended Ocean Winds.
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Plots of blended zonal winds are shown below, for samples in 2004, from 4/29 18hr to 5/1 12hr.
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Also shown are vector plots for blended winds ("bln") and NCEP winds ("low") at two different times, as well as the QSCAT swath data that were used as input for the blended winds at these two times. In th QSCAT figures, rain-flagged data is either shown in red (speed < 15m/s) or green (speed &ge 15 m/s).
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