Comparison of Multiple Surface Ocean Wind Products with Buoy Data over Blue Amazon (Brazilian Continental Margin)

Table 3

Mean (±standard deviation) and maximum and minimum wind speed and circular mean (±circular standard deviation) wind direction from the in situ measurement buoys.

Dataset	Buoy	Mean		Max	Min
		Speed (ms^−1)	Dir. (°)	Speed (ms^−1)	Speed (ms^−1)
PIRATA (OW)	8N38W	6.78 ± 2.60	244 ± 60.0	20.6	0.00
	4N23W	5.38 ± 2.17	307 ± 82.1	32.3	0.00
	4N38W	6.31 ± 2.21	274 ± 52.6	17.9	0.00
	0N23W	5.67 ± 1.89	306 ± 35.5	19.0	0.00
	0N35W	6.27 ± 2.07	288 ± 38.2	17.1	0.00
	8S30W	7.36 ± 1.70	290 ± 20.5	16.3	0.00
	14S32W	6.92 ± 1.90	276 ± 28.1	17.1	0.00
	19S34W	6.15 ± 2.17	254 ± 52.3	16.5	0.00
PNBOIA (SW)	Fortaleza	8.91 ± 2.19	287 ± 23.1	16.0	0.43
	Recife	6.53 ± 1.76	298 ± 33.3	47.4	0.11
	Porto Seguro	5.53 ± 2.42	280 ± 111	16.1	0.11
	Cabo Frio 2	7.52 ± 3.19	264 ± 75.0	16.3	0.11
	Santos	6.88 ± 3.07	290 ± 102	20.1	0.11
	Itajaí	7.68 ± 3.41	242 ± 146	36.3	0.11
	Rio Grande	8.34 ± 3.58	218 ± 113	48.9	0.11

OW: oceanic waters; SW: shelf waters.