ocean modeling community, we develop a new forcing product, ERA*, by means of a
geolocated scatterometer-based correction applied to the European Centre for Medium-
range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) reanalysis or ERA-interim (hereafter referred to as
ERAi). This method successfully corrects for local wind vector biases present in the ERAi
output globally. Several configurations of the ERA* are tested using complementary …