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CORE.2 Global Air-Sea Flux Dataset
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This dataset contains the complete set of global air-sea heat and water flux components computed from version 2 of CORE (Common Ocean Reference Experiment) atmospheric state fields starting from 1949.
The air-sea fluxes are derived from bulk formulae applied to atmospheric state fields from multiple sources together with a merged Hadley-OI SST product at monthly resolution. The primary atmospheric input data are based on NCEP reanalyses at 6-hourly resolution. In addition, satellite-based radiation, precipitation, and sea ice concentration are used, at resolutions from daily to monthly. Some of the input data have been adjusted to agree in the mean with a variety of more reliable satellite and in situ measurements that themselves are either too short in duration or too regional in coverage. Fluxes have been temporally averaged as needed for distribution as monthly means.
For further information, please refer to the publications listed below.
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| PERIODS: |
1949-01-15 00:00 +0000 to 2006-12-15 00:00 +0000
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| UPDATES: |
half-yearly
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| VARIABLES: |
| Evaporation | Heat Flux | Longwave Radiation | Precipitation Amount |
| Runoff | Shortwave Radiation | Wind Stress | |
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| LEVELS: |
See the detailed metadata for level information
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| TYPES: |
Grid
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| 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)
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| SOURCES: |
UCAR/NCAR/CGD Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
DOC/NOAA/GFDL/NOMADSNOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Operational Model Archive and Distribution System, U.S. Department of Commerce
GB/MOD/MET/HADLEYHadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research, Met Office, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom
DOC/NOAA/NWS/NCEPNational Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
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| RELATED SITES: |
Forcing for Common Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE)
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| PUBLICATIONS: |
LARGE And YEAGER, 2008: THE GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY OF AN INTERANNUALLY VARYING AIA-SEA FLUX DATA SET. Climate Dynamics (Submitted), 0, 0-0.
Hurrell et al., 2008: A new sea surface temperature and sea ice boundary data set for the Community Atmosphere Model. J Climate (Accepted), 0, 0-0.
Large, 2006: "Surface Fluxes for Practitioners of Global Ocean Data Assimilation", in Ocean Weather and Forecasting. Ed. E. Chassignet and J. Verron, Springer, 229-270.
Large and Yeager, 2004: Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models : the data sets and flux climatologies. TN-460+STR, NCAR, 105 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 ds260.2."
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| VOLUME: |
1.03 GBytes
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| DATA FORMATS: |
netCDF
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| MORE DETAILS: |
View more details for this dataset, including dataset citation, data contributors, and other detailed metadata
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| CONTACT: |
For assistance with this dataset, please contact
Zaihua Ji (303-497-1819)
. If the specialist is unavailable, please contact
Data Help.
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| DATA ACCESS: |
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