The RSS Monthly 1-deg Merged Wind Climatology netCDF dataset provides one degree gridded data for the monthly means of wind speed and wind direction, a 20 year climatology file, and a cumulative file from 1988 to the current month. This includes the anomalies for global winds over Ice Free Oceans (60S to 60N) and the tropical mean for 20S to 20N. Satellite information used in calculating the means is included for the SSMI (8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15) and SSMIS (16, 17), AQUA10 and Windsat (Coriolis). This dataset contains both netCDF3 and netCDF4 formatted files.