This is a Daily (24-hour) product; data are projected to equidistant Grid that covers the globe at 1x1 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 360x180 size.
The daily fluxes are produced for each individual available SSM/I satellite tapes (e.g., F08, F10, F11, F13, F14 and F15), and then serve as input to the Combined daily fluxes (GES_DISC_GSSTF_2c).
These HDF-EOS5 files contain one grid that have 9 variables:
The double-quoted labels are the short names of the data fields in the HDF-EOS5 files.
The short name for this data set is GSSTF_F14
Parameters contained in the data files include the following: Variable Name|Description|Units DQ|sea-air humidity difference|(g/kg) E|latent heat flux|(W/m^^2) H|sensible heat flux|(W/m^^2) Qair|surface air (~10-m) specific humidity|(g/kg) STu|zonal wind stress|(N/m^^2) STv|meridional wind stress|(N/m^^2) Tot_Precip_Water|Total Precipitable Water|(g/cm^^2) U|10-m wind speed|(m/s) WB|lowest 500-m precipitable water|(g/cm^^2) End of parameter information
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory
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Publications/References
Reference: Values of the Solar Properties - Solar Radio Flux, Quiet Sun Flux, Slowly Varying Component, and Ottawa 10.7 cm Flux, International Astronomical Union Publication Issue Identification: IAU 1957-1958, published by NGDC, 1973.
NASA Climate Data System Detailed Catalog Entry
'Solar-Geophysical Data' Reports, published by NGDC.
