Data from: Flight paths of seabirds soaring over the ocean surface enable measurement of fine-scale wind speed and direction

• Main Authors: Yonehara, Yoshinari, Goto, Yusuke, Yoda, Ken, Watanuki, Yutaka, Young, Lindsay C., Weimerskirch, Henri, Bost, Charles-André, Sato, Katsufumi
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) 2017
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; dynamic soaring; Laysan albatross; streaked shearwater; wandering albatross; bio-logging; GPS; satellite scatterometer; north-eastern Japan; Hawaii; Possession Island; geo; envir; Wandering Albatross
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3pb86

Monitoring ocean surface winds is essential for understanding ocean and atmosphere interactions and weather forecasts. However, wind measured by satellite scatterometers and buoys are spatially and temporally coarse, particularly in coastal areas. We deployed small global positioning system units on...