Oberhuber's Climatological Atlas of Heat Fluxes and Radiation Budget Over the Global Oceans

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Metadata:

• Identification_Information
• Data_Quality_Information
• Spatial_Reference_Information
• Distribution_Information
• Metadata_Reference_Information

Identification_Information:

Citation:

Citation_Information:

Originator: J.M. Oberhuber

Publication_Date: 1988

Title: Oberhuber's Climatological Atlas of Heat Fluxes and Radiation Budget Over the Global Oceans

Edition:

Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form:

Series_Information:

Series_Name:

Issue_Identification:

Publication_Information:

Publication_Place: Boulder, CO

Publisher: NCAR

Other_Citation_Details:

Online_Linkage: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds541.0/

Description:

Abstract:

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 (NCAR). It was derived from land or island station records and completed by satellite observations. Salinity data required to compute buoyancy fluxes were taken from Sydney Levitus (NOAA/NODC). 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.

Purpose:

Not Available

Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: Oberhuber, J. M. 1988. "An atlas based on COADS Data Set", Tech. Report No. 15, Max-Planck-Institut fur Meteorologie.

Time_Period_of_Content:

Time_Period_Information:

Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19500101

Ending_Date: 19791231

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: Complete

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

Spatial_Domain:

Description_of_Geographic_Extent:

Bounding_Coordinates:

West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 90.0

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -90.0

Keywords:

Theme:

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD SCIENCE PARAMETERS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD PLATFORM

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: PROJECT

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ANCILLARY KEYWORDS

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO TOPIC CATEGORY

Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: DATA SET LANGUAGE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > BOUNDARY LAYER TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY > RELATIVE HUMIDITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > HUMIDITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WATER VAPOR > WATER VAPOR > RELATIVE HUMIDITY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > SURFACE WINDS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > CLOUDS > CLOUD PROPERTIES > CLOUD FREQUENCY

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > ABSORPTION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > HEAT FLUX > LATENT HEAT FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > LONGWAVE RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > NET RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > OUTGOING LONGWAVE RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION > SOLAR RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > FRESH WATER FLUX > PRECIPITATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN CIRCULATION > OCEAN MIXED LAYER > MIXED LAYER TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > HEAT FLUX > LATENT HEAT FLUX

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > LONGWAVE RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > SHORTWAVE RADIATION

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN PRESSURE > SEA LEVEL PRESSURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN TEMPERATURE > OCEAN MIXED LAYER > MIXED LAYER TEMPERATURE

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN WINDS > SURFACE WINDS > WIND SPEED

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > SALINITY/DENSITY > SALINITY

Theme_Keyword: GROUND STATIONS

Theme_Keyword: BUOYS

Theme_Keyword: SHIPS

Theme_Keyword: DODS > DISTRIBUTED OCEANOGRAPHIC DATA SYSTEM

Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: OPENDAP > OPEN-SOURCE PROJECT FOR A NETWORK DATA ACCESS PROTOCOL

Theme_Keyword: Absorbed Solar Radiation

Theme_Keyword: Air Sea Interface

Theme_Keyword: Climatology

Theme_Keyword: Cloud Cover

Theme_Keyword: Coads

Theme_Keyword: Ds541.0

Theme_Keyword: Frictional Velocity

Theme_Keyword: Grid Data

Theme_Keyword: Latent Heat Flux

Theme_Keyword: Marine

Theme_Keyword: Monthly Data

Theme_Keyword: Oberhuber

Theme_Keyword: Olr

Theme_Keyword: Outgoing Longwave Radiation

Theme_Keyword: Radiation

Theme_Keyword: Radiation Budget

Theme_Keyword: Sensible Heat Flux

Theme_Keyword: Statistics

Theme_Keyword: Surface

Theme_Keyword: CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: GERMAN

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

Place:

Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: GCMD

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > INDIAN OCEAN

Place_Keyword: OCEAN > PACIFIC OCEAN

Place_Keyword: GEOGRAPHIC REGION > GLOBAL OCEAN

Place_Keyword: VERTICAL LOCATION > SEA SURFACE

Access_Constraints: Not Available

Use_Constraints:

Not Available

Point_of_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: JOSEF M. OBERHUBER

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Max-Planck Institute for Meteorology

City: Hamburg 13

Postal_Code: 2000

Country: Bundersstrasse 55, FRG

Data_Quality_Information:

Attribute_Accuracy:

Attribute_Accuracy_Report:

Not Available

Logical_Consistency_Report:

Not Available

Completeness_Report:

Not Available

Lineage:

Process_Step:

Process_Description:

Not Available

Process_Date: Unknown

Spatial_Reference_Information:

Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:

Geographic:

Latitude_Resolution: 2 deg

Longitude_Resolution: 2 deg

Geographic_Coordinate_Units: Decimal degrees

Distribution_Information:

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/RDA > Research Data Archive, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Contact_Person: RDA HELP DESK

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: National Center for Atmospheric Research

Address: CISL/DSS

Address: P.O. Box 3000

City: Boulder

State_or_Province: CO

Postal_Code: 80307

Country: U.S.A.

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (303)-497-1231

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303)-497-1291

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dssweb@ucar.edu

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: COLUMBIA/LDEO/IRI/CDL > Climate Data Library, International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University

Contact_Person: BENNO BLUMENTHAL

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Data Library Manager

Address: International Research Institute for Climate Prediction

Address: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

Address: Columbia University

City: Palisades

State_or_Province: NY

Postal_Code: 10964-8000

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: (845) 680-4450

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (845) 680-4864

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: benno@iri.ldeo.columbia.edu

Distributor:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: MPI-M > Max Planck Institute for Meteorology

Contact_Person: KLAUS HASSELMANN

Contact_Position: DATA CENTER CONTACT

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: Max Plank Institute fur Meteorologie

Address: Bundesstrasse 55 W/2000

City: Hamburg

Country: 13 Deutschland

Contact_Voice_Telephone: +1 (040) 41173-0

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: +1 (040) 41173-298

Resource_Description: ds541.0

Resource_Description: MPI_FLUX

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

Standard_Order_Process:

Digital_Form:

Digital_Transfer_Information:

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://rda.ucar.edu/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/

Access_Instructions:

DATA CENTER URL

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/nvods?dset=by+Dataset+N...

Access_Instructions:

NVODS Live Access to Oberhuber data

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.OBERHUBER...

Access_Instructions:

Oberhuber data set at LDEO/IRI

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/LAS_docFiles/oberhuber_...

Access_Instructions:

Josef Oberhuber's COADS-based heat flux atlas information

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://ingrid.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.OBERHUBER...

Access_Instructions:

Oberhuber data set at LDEO/IRI

Digital_Transfer_Option:

Online_Option:

Computer_Contact_Information:

Network_Address:

Network_Resource_Name:

http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds541.0/

Access_Instructions:

Oberhuber data set at NCAR

Fees: None (ldeo), Cost (ncar)

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date:

Metadata_Review_Date: 20050929

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: SCOTT A. RITZ

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: Mailing and Physical Address

Address: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Address: Global Change Master Directory

City: Greenbelt

State_or_Province: Maryland

Postal_Code: 20771

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 301-614-5126

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: 301-614-5268

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: Scott.A.Ritz@nasa.gov

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time