6d39f49d9ce24836b16cf6ecad1f8ae6
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8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c
dataset
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
pointOfContact
2024-03-29T00:08:40
UK GEMINI
2.3
WGS 84
NOC 1.1a: Adjusted National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1a)
2014-09-22T03:50:40
publication
2014-09-22T03:50:40
creation
http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/6d39f49d9ce24836b16cf6ecad1f8ae6
6d39f49d9ce24836b16cf6ecad1f8ae6
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
This dataset contains the adjusted climatological monthly mean files of air-sea fluxes (heat fluxes only) on a global grid in netCDF format produced at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC).
It was produced by the NERC COAPEC thematic programme project using inverse analysis techniques to remove the global ocean heat budget imbalance of 30 Wm-2 that was present in the NOC1.1 flux climatology.
Each data file contains 12 climatological monthly means on a global 1 x 1 grid for a particular flux field:
latent heat flux (hfls),
net heat flux (hfns),
sensible heat flux (hfss),
net longwave flux (rls),
net shortwave flux (rss).
Units are W/m2.
The flux fields were originally derived from the COADS1a (1980-93) dataset enhanced with additional metadata from the WMO47 list of ships. A full description of the fields is given in The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas (see link under Docs) and a parallel journal paper (Josey et al, 1999) describes the results of various evaluation studies (see links under Docs).
It is important to note that the quality of the fields has a strong spatial dependence which reflects the global distribution of ship observations. Quality is likely to be high in the well sampled North Atlantic & North Pacific but to decrease in the Southern Hemisphere. In particular, south of 40 S the errors in the fields are likely to be large and we recognise the existence of spurious features which have been generated during the objective analysis of the original raw fields. NOC stress that caution must be taken when interpreting the fields in this region.
Josey, Simon
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author
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author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
custodian
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
distributor
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
distributor
Sutton, Rowan
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principal_investigator
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principalInvestigator
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
point_of_contact
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
publisher
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
publisher
notPlanned
dataset
SOC
NOCS
NOC1.1a
NOC
ocean
heat flux
air-sea interaction
atmospheric conditions
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
otherRestrictions
Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for an account to gain access.
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Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ . When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
grid
English
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
-180.0
180.0
-90.0
90.0
1973-01-01T00:00:00
2005-12-31T00:00:00
File format is COARDS compliant netCDF. Files are compressed (.Z).
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
Data Center Contact
+44(0)1235 446432
British Atmospheric Data Centre
STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
Harwell Oxford
OX11 0QX
UK
badc@rl.ac.uk
distributor
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information
http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/nocs_flux/data/noc1.1a
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http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/19117/
Josey, S.A. et al., 1998: The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas
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http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/55571/
Josey, S. A. et al., 1999: New Insights into the Ocean Heat Budget Closure Problem from Analysis of the SOC Air–Sea Flux Climatology
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http://noc.ac.uk/science-technology/earth-ocean-system/atmosphere-ocean/nocs-flux-dataset-archive
NOC1.1 Home page at NOC
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
Data is provided by NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) to the BADC for archiving.