Atlas of Surface Marine Data 1994
Vol. 1: Algorithms and Procedures

ARLINDO M. DA SILVA AND CHRISTINE C. YOUNG
Department of Geosciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

SYDNEY LEVITUS
NOAA/National Oceanographic Data Center

• Introduction
• Overview of data products
• Data source and COADS quality control
• Known biases in COADS
  • Sea surface temperature
  • Air temperature
  • Dew point temperature
  • Wind speed
  • Cloudiness
  • Present Weather
• A revised Beaufort equivalent scale derived from COADS
  • Method of analysis
  • Assessing current Beaufort equivalent scales
  • Correcting estimated winds in COADS
  • Sensitivity study
  • Effect on long term climatology and trends
  • Summary
• Bias corrections
  • Wind speed
  • Cloudiness
  • Present Weather
• Parameterizations
  • Symbols
  • Wind stress
  • Oceanic friction velocity
  • Evaporation, sensible and latent heat fluxes
  • Precipitation
  • Net short wave and net long wave radiation
  • Buoyancy flux
  • Surface atmospheric fluxes
• Computation of monthly statistics and objective analysis
• Fine tuning of heat and fresh water fluxes
  • Linear Inverse Calculation
  • Fine tuning of heat fluxes
  • Fine tuning of fresh water fluxes
  • Consistent heat/fresh water flux tuning
  • Constrained fluxes in UWM/ COADS
  • Producing your own fine tuned fluxes
• Assessing sampling errors in the analyzed data products
  • Data source and method of analysis
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