OBERHUBER: Max Planck Institute Heat Fluxes

BRIEF

This data set contains climatological monthly means of heat fluxes and radiation budget over the global oceans, based on analyses of the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) for the period 1950 - 1979. All data are given on a 2 x 2 latitude/longitude grid. Meteorological and oceanographic parameters contained in this data set include air temperature, mixed layer temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, cloud cover, wind speed, sea level pressure, salinity, absorbed solar radiation, outgoing longwave radiation, net radiation, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, net downward heat flux, net freshwater flux, buoyancy flux, frictional velocity, newtonian cooling rate, and transfer coefficient for latent heat. Precipitation data were prepared by Dennis Shea. It was derived from land or island station records and completed by satellite observations. Salinity data required to compute buoyancy fluxes were taken from Levitus. All input data were monthly mean climatological values except the surface salinity. Because of the small variation of the climatological mean surface salinity throughout the year, annual mean values were used.

The data are here.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: MPI_FLUX (MD Identifier: 460)
 
Temporal Coverage:
     From: 1950-01-01                 TO: 1979-12-31 
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 90S,180W    Northeast Extent:  90N,180E
 
Source:
     GROUND STATIONS
     SHIP/BUOYS
 
Storage Media:
     Online
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > OCEAN
 
Location Keyword:
     EQUATORIAL
     GLOBAL
     MID-LATITUDE
     POLAR
     SEA SURFACE
 
Parameter Group, Parameter:
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > CLOUDS
     ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION         > HUMIDITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > CLOUD TYPES
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > HEAT FLUX
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > HUMIDITY
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > PRECIPITATION
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > SOLAR RADIATION
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
     EARTH RADIATIVE PROCESSES       > SOLAR ACTIVITY
     OCEAN COMPOSITION               > SALINITY
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > HEAT FLUX
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > PRESSURE
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > WINDS
 
General Keywords:
     SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE 
     AIR SEA INTERFACE
     CLIMATOLOGY
     GRID DATA
     IDN_NODE GSFC/NCDS
     MARINE
     MONHTLY DATA
     RADIATION
     STATISTICS
     SURFACE
 
Revision Date: 1992-05-21

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NCDS>NASA Climate Data System
   Data Set ID: MPI_FLUX 
 
   Contact: OLSEN, LOLA 
            GSFC Distributed Active Archive Center
            NASA/GSFC
            Code 902.2
            Greenbelt, MD 20771
            USA
 
            Electronic Mail: INTERNET> OLSEN@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
                             NSI/DECNET> NCF::OLSEN
 
            Phone: (301) 286-9760
                   FTS 888-9760

PERSONNEL

Tech Contact: OBERHUBER, JOSEF M.
              Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology
              2000 Hamburg 13
              Bundersstrasse 55, FRG
 
Entry Author: SCIALDONE, JOHN N.
              Hughes STX
              7701 Greenbelt Road, Suite 400
              Greenbelt, MD  20770
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: INTERNET> SCIALDONE@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV
                               NSI/DECnet> NCF::SCIALDONE
 
              Phone: (301) 441-4214
 
 
Information in this entry provided by NCDS

REFERENCE

J. M. Oberhuber, "An atlas based on `COADS' data set," Tech. Rep. 15, Max-Planck-Instutut für Meteorologie, 1988.

SUP_MENU

   1. Data Center: NCDS>NASA Climate Data System