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Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes (OAFlux) For Global Oceans, By Lisan Yu et al.

This dataset includes the 3rd release of the global ocean-surface heat flux products (1958-2006). The OAFlux products are constructed from multiple data sources, an optimal blending of satellite retrievals and three atmospheric ranalyses. Daily fluxes are computed from the optimally estimated variables using the COARE bulk flux algorithm 3.0.

Monthly products are made from entire 49-year period, and daily products are available from 1985 onward. For further information, please visit the OAFlux Project Home Page.

PERIODS:

1958-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-12-31 00:00 +0000 (Entire dataset)

Period details by subset

Period details by subset:
1985-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-12-31 00:00 +0000 (DAILY OAFlux Products)
1958-01-01 00:00 +0000 to 2006-12-31 00:00 +0000 (MONTHLY OAFlux Products)

VARIABLES:

Evaporation	Heat Flux	Humidity	Longwave Radiation
Sea Surface Temperature	Shortwave Radiation	Surface Air Temperature	Surface Winds

LEVELS:

See the detailed metadata for level information

TYPES:

Grid

COVERAGE:

Longitude Range: Westernmost=180W Easternmost=180E
Latitude Range: Southernmost=89.5S Northernmost=89.5N

Detailed coverage information

Detailed coverage information:
1° x 1°, 0.5E to 359.5E and 89.5S to 89.5N (360 x 180 Longitude/Latitude) (DAILY OAFlux Products)
1° x 1°, 0.5E to 359.5E and 89.5S to 89.5N (360 x 180 Longitude/Latitude) (MONTHLY OAFlux Products)

SOURCES:

WHOI/PO

Physical Oceanography Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

NASA/GSFC/ESD/GISS

Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Earth Sciences Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

PUBLICATIONS:

Yu, L., X. Jin, and R.A. Weller, 2008: Multidecade Global Flux Datasets from the Objectively Analyzed Air-sea Fluxes (OAFlux) Project: Latent and sensible heat fluxes, ocean evaporation, and related surface meteorological variables. OA-2008-1, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 64 pp.

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 ds260.1."

VOLUME:

6.79 GBytes (Entire dataset)

Volume details by subset

Volume details by subset:
DAILY OAFlux Products: 6.40 GBytes
MONTHLY OAFlux Products: 389.19 MBytes

DATA FORMATS:

netCDF

MORE DETAILS:

View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata

CONTACT:

For assistance with this dataset, please contact Zaihua Ji (303-497-1819) . If the specialist is unavailable, please contact Data Help.

DATA ACCESS:

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