COADS Wind Workshop Proceedings Contents

Contents

Part I. Background Papers

The Importance of COADS Winds for Understanding Climate Change: (J. 0. Fletcher) 4
COADS Project Report I: Update Plans and Unresolved Issues: (S.D.Woodruff) 12
COADS Project Report II: Early Data Digitization and United States Code History: (J. D. Elms) 29

Part II. Evaluation of Long-Term Changes

Near-Global MSLP Since 1871: A Source for COADS Wind Validation: (R. J Allan) 38
Marine Surface Winds Changes During 1978-1992: An Estimation Based on COADS: (H. F. Diaz, X Quan and C Fu) 48
Trends in Marine Surface Wind Speed: Ocean Weather Stations versus Voluntary Observing Ships: (H.-J. Isemer) 68
Testing Winds Against Other Variables from COADS: (D. V. Hansen and H. F. Bezdek) 85
Dynamical Constraints for the Analysis of Sea Level Pressure and Surface Winds Over the World Ocean: (Y. Kushnir and A. Kaplan) 91
Near-Surface Wind, SLP and SST: Some Inter-relationships and a Set of Corrections for Wind Trends 1949-1988: (M. N. Ward) 102

Part III. Accuracy of Wind Measurements

Comparison of COADS Winds with SNMC Climatology and Measurements in the North Atlantic: (S. K. Gulev) 121
The Accuracy of Wind Observations from Ships: (P. K Taylor, E. Kent, M. Yelland, and B. Moat) 132
On problems using archived marine wind data: The relation between Beaufort estimations, encoded wind speeds, and real wind speeds: (H. Schmidt) 156
Standard Error Estimation of COADS Monthly Mean Winds: (M. L. Morrissey and J. A. Maliekal) 165
Effects of Different Wind Stress Climatologies on the North Atlantic Circulation: Model results: (C. W. Böning) 171

Part IV. Applications and Data Improvements

Use of COADS Wind Data in Wave Hindcasting and Statistical Analysis: (V. R. Swail) 179
Scales of Coastal Wind Variability Addressed by COADS Wind Summaries in 2 Square Areas: (F. A. Godshall, H. A. Walker and S. C. Cayula) 187
Wind Speed Discontinuity Related to Beaufort Wind Observations and Its Influences on Latent Heat Flux: (Z. Wu and K. Li) 212
A New Beaufort Equivalent Scale: (R. Lindau) 232
Time Dependent Calibration of Marine Beaufort Estimates Using Individual Pressure Differences: (R. Lindau) 253
Toward a Revised Beaufort Equivalent Scale: (A. M. da Silva, C. C. Young and S. Levitus) 270
The Effect of a Revised Beaufort Equivalent Scale on Momentum and Heat Fluxes over the Global Oceans: (C. C. Young, A. M. da Silva and S. Levitus) 287