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Ocean-atmosphere heat, momentum and freshwater flux, climatology, by Josey et al.
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Simon A. Josey, Elizabeth C. Kent, and Peter K.
Taylor compiled the SOC monthly mean flux atlas
on a 1 degree by 1 degree grid.
The fields have been derived from the
COADS Release 1a (1980-93) dataset enhanced with additional metadata
from the WMO47 list of ships.
The original version 1.1 atlas was completed in 1998. Additional work was
done on the heat flux components in 2002. The air-sea heat flux was
adjusted according to contraints determined from estimates of oceanic heat
transport. Through the adjustment process the original imbalance
of about 30 W/m^2 was reduced to about 2 W/m^2.
Both the original version 1.1 atlas and the adjusted air-fluxes
are available in this dataset.
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| VARIABLES: |
| Heat Flux | Longwave Radiation | Precipitation Rate | Shortwave Radiation |
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| LEVELS: |
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| TYPES: |
Platform Observation
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| SOURCES: |
U-SOTON/SOC Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
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| RELATED SITES: |
SOC Air-Sea Flux Climatology web page
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
Grist, J.P., and S.A. Josey, 2003: Inverse Analysis Adjustment of the SOC Air-Sea Flux Climatology Using Ocean Heat Transport Constraints. J. Clim., 16, 3274-3295.
Recommended acknowledgement for this dataset:
"The data for this study are from the Research Data Archive (RDA) which is maintained by the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The original data are available from the RDA (http://dss.ucar.edu) in dataset number ds540.9."
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| VOLUME: |
170.73 MBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
ASCII (see dataset documentation),
netCDF
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Steve Worley (303-497-1248)
or
Doug Schuster (303-497-1216)
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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