Global Ocean Heat Flux and Wind Stress from Oregon State University Climate

Research Institute at NCAR

BRIEF

These monthly climatologies were compiled by Esbensen and Kushnir 1981 (heat budget) and by Han and Lee (stress) in 1981, and are archived at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Global ocean radiation and heat budget data are prepared on a 4 X 5 degree latitude/longitude grid and are described in Oregon State University (OSU) Climate Research Institute (CRI) Report 29. Files of wind stress over the oceans are prepared on a 5 X 5 degree latitude/longitude grid and are described in OSU CRI Report 26. The data include surface wind speed, sea level pressure, sea surface temperature (SST), sea/air temperature difference, air temperature, specific humidity, sea/air specific humidity difference, cloudiness, available solar radiation, net upward longwave radiation, net downward radiative flux, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, and net downward heat flux.

The data are here.

ATTRIBUTES

Entry_ID: NCAR_OSU (MD Identifier: 252)
 
Geographic Coverage:
     Southwest Extent: 90S,180W    Northeast Extent:  90N,180E
 
Source:
     SHIP
 
Storage Media:
     Magnetic Tapes, 1600 and 6250bpi
 
Discipline, Subdiscipline:
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > ATMOSPHERE
     EARTH SCIENCE                   > OCEAN
 
Location Keyword:
     GLOBAL
     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            > PRESSURE
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > SOLAR RADIATION
     ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS            > WINDS
     EARTH RADIATIVE PROCESSES       > HEAT FLUX
     EARTH RADIATIVE PROCESSES       > SOLAR ACTIVITY
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > HEAT FLUX
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > PRESSURE
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > TEMPERATURE
     OCEAN DYNAMICS                  > WINDS
 
General Keywords:
     CLIMATOLOGY
     GRID DATA
     HEAT BUDGET
     MONTHLY DATA
     RADIATION
     SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
     SPECIFIC HUMIDITY
     SURFACE
 
Revision Date: 1992-03-30

DATACENTER

Archive: 
   NCAR>National Center for Atmospheric Research
   Data Set ID: DS 209 
 
   Contact: JOSEPH, DENNIS 
            National Center for Atmospheric Research
            Data Support Section
            P.O. Box 3000
            Boulder, CO  80307
            USA
 
            Electronic Mail: INTERNET> JOSEPH@BIERSTADT.SCD.UCAR.EDU
 
            Phone: 303-497-1216

PERSONNEL

Investigator: ESBENSEN, STEVE 
              Atmospheric Sciences Department
              Oregon State University
              Corvallis, OR 97331
              USA
 
              Phone: (503) 737-4557
 
Investigator: KUSHNIR, YOCHANAN
              LDEO of Columbia University
              Palisades, NY 10964
              USA
 
              Phone: (914) 365-8669
 
Tech Contact: JENNE, ROY 
              National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
              P.O. Box 3000
              Boulder, CO 80307-3000
              USA
 
              Electronic Mail: OMNET> R.JENNE
 
              Phone: (303) 497-1215
 
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 NCAR

REFERENCE

S. K. Esbensen and Y. Kushnir 1981, "The heat budget of the global ocean: An atlas based on estimates from surface marine observations," Tech. Rep. 29, Clim. Res. Inst., Oreg. State Univ., Corvallis.

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