CANONICAL MARINE PARAMETER
Wind speed
Magnitude of horizontal wind velocity. Preserve measurement height or whether the value has been converted to an equivalent 10-m neutral wind.
- Canonical key
wind_speed- Parameter family
- Marine atmosphere
- Scientific category
- Atmosphere
- Canonical unit
- m s-1
- CF standard name / vocabulary
- wind_speed
- Vertical domain
- atmosphere near surface
- Required qualifiers
- measurement_height; neutral/actual; averaging interval
- Merge policy
- CONDITIONAL
- Mapped sources
- 9
Marine observation sources
The following registered sources have indexed metadata mappings for this parameter. Consult the registry details for each mapping's verification and review status.
- NOAA National Data Buoy Center (NDBC) NOAA NDBC
- GTMBA: TAO/TRITON + PIRATA + RAMA NOAA PMEL and international partners
- OceanSITES OceanSITES / GDACs
- ICOADS NOAA NCEI + international partners
- Copernicus Marine Global In-Situ Copernicus Marine Service
- PANGAEA Alfred Wegener Institute / MARUM
- NASA PO.DAAC NASA JPL / EOSDIS
- NOAA CoastWatch NOAA NESDIS / CoastWatch
- Voluntary Observing Ships (VOS) via WIS2/ICOADS WMO VOS / national meteorological services