Terrestrial near-surface (10-m) wind speed decreased over the Northern Hemisphere between 1980 and 2010. We revisit this ‘global stilling’ by comparing station-based observations and multiple atmospheric reanalysis products and assessing their ability to capture the past changes in near-surface wind speed. We show, using a station-based wind speed dataset from the Met Office (HadISD3), that global stilling is robust and not an...