Analysis of the position and strength of westerlies and trades with implications for Agulhas leakage and South Benguela upwelling
Data sets
The NCEP/NCAR 40-year reanalysis project (https://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/data/gridded/data.ncep.reanalysis.derived.surfaceflux.html) https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0477(1996)077<0437:tnyrp>2.0.co;2
The JRA-55 Reanalysis: General Specifications and Basic Characteristics (https://rda.ucar.edu) https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2015-001
The global climatology of an interannually varying air-sea flux data set (https://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/nomads/forms/core/COREv2/CIAF_v2.html) https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-008-0441-3
ERA-20C: An Atmospheric Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century (https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/datasets/reanalysis-datasets/era-20c) https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-15-0556.1
Optimal Spectral Nudging for Global Dynamical Downscaling (https://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/cerasearch/) https://doi.org/10.1175/mwr-d-16-0036.1