Gridded and blended sea surface vector winds from multiple satellites with direction from NCEP Reanalysis-2; Global ocean coverage with a 0.25-degree resolution; The whole datasets covers from July 1987 to present. Climatological (1995-2005) monthlies in this dataset; 6-hourly, daily & monthly resolutions are also available in other directories; See http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/blendedseawinds.html and links within for details. Include (u,v) means and scalar mean speed w for comparison