NERC Data Catalogue Service
NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) Flux Datasets: marine surface meteorology, freshwater and heat fluxes.
The National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) produced a collection of Surface Flux Datasets which contains estimates of the following parameters (including uncertainty) on a 1° monthly mean grid for the global ice-free ocean:
- Air temperature (at 10 m)
- Specific Humidity (at 10 m)
- Wind Speed (at 10 m)
- Sea level pressure
- Sea surface temperature (bulk)
- Latent heat flux
- Sensible heat flux
- Net longwave radiation
- Net shortwave radiation
The datasets are:
NOC1.1 - National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1) - 1973-2005
NOC1.1a - Adjusted National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1a) -1973-2005
NOC2.0 - National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 2.0) - 1973-
Note that the NOC1 climatology was previously referred to as the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) flux climatology and was renamed when the SOC became the NOC. The SOC climatology existed in two versions: the 'Original' set of fields and an 'Adjusted' set in which closure of the ocean heat budget was achieved using inverse analysis. These have now become:
NOC1.1 - Previously the 'Original' SOC climatology including Heat flux and wind stress fields, Freshwater flux fields and Meteorological fields
NOC1.1a - Previously the 'Adjusted' SOC climatology (climatological monthly fields) including Heat flux fields only.
These data can be used for many purposes, including assessing the performance of numerical models, assessing the measurements we get from satellites and understanding how the ocean and atmosphere interact in recent decades.
For background information on Heat Fluxes, please see links under Docs.
Funding has been received from the Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office for the production and analysis of this collection of data.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009-12-10T03:20:50
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2009-12-10T03:20:50
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown
- Update scope
- series
- Keywords
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- NOCS
- NOC
- heatflux
- air-sea interactions
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- atmospheric conditions
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Usage limitations for the data within this collection is set at the individual dataset level. Please refer to the licence details of each underlying dataset.
- Spatial representation type
- grid
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1973-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2014-12-31T23:59:59
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
- Data format
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Contact data centre for format details.
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Contact data centre for format details.
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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NOCS Flux data Homepage
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Clark, N. E., L. Eber, R. M. Laurs, J. A. Renner, and J. F. T. Saur, 1974: Heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere in the eastern North Pacific for 1961
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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NOC Air Sea Interaction
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Introduction on Heat Fluxes
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- Resource Locator
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource
- Resource Locator
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NOCS Flux data Homepage
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Clark, N. E., L. Eber, R. M. Laurs, J. A. Renner, and J. F. T. Saur, 1974: Heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere in the eastern North Pacific for 1961
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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NOC Air Sea Interaction
No further details.
- Resource Locator
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Introduction on Heat Fluxes
No further details.
- Quality Scope
- series
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
- Resource type
- series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Metadata Date
- 2023-03-02T01:38:28
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
