CORE.2 Global Air-Sea Flux Dataset

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Identification_Information:

Citation:

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Originator: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS > Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Publication_Date: Unknown

Title: CORE.2 Global Air-Sea Flux Dataset

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Publisher: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS > Data Support Section, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

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Online_Linkage: http://dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds260.2/

Description:

Abstract:

This dataset contains the complete set of global air-sea heat and water flux components computed from version 2 of CORE (Common Ocean Reference Experiment) atmospheric state fields starting from 1949. The air-sea fluxes are derived from bulk formulae applied to atmospheric state fields from multiple sources together with a merged Hadley-OI SST product at monthly resolution. The primary atmospheric input data are based on NCEP reanalyses at 6-hourly resolution. In addition, satellite-based radiation, precipitation, and sea ice concentration are used, at resolutions from daily to monthly. Some of the input data have been adjusted to agree in the mean with a variety of more reliable satellite and in situ measurements that themselves are either too short in duration or too regional in coverage. Fluxes have been temporally averaged as needed for distribution as monthly means. For further information, please refer to the publications listed below.

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Supplemental_Information:

REFERENCE: LARGE And YEAGER, 2008: THE GLOBAL CLIMATOLOGY OF AN INTERANNUALLY VARYING AIA-SEA FLUX DATA SET. Climate Dynamics (Submitted), 0, 0-0. Hurrell et al., 2008: A new sea surface temperature and sea ice boundary data set for the Community Atmosphere Model. J Climate (Accepted), 0, 0-0. Large, 2006: Surface Fluxes for Practitioners of Global Ocean Data Assimilation. . Large and Yeager, 2004: Diurnal to decadal global forcing for ocean and sea-ice models : the data sets and flux climatologies. TN-460+STR, NCAR, 105 pp., URL: http://www.dss.ucar.edu/datasets/ds260.2/docs/techreport2004.pdf.

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Range_of_Dates/Times:

Beginning_Date: 19490115

Ending_Date: 20061215

Currentness_Reference:Unknown

Status:

Progress: In Work

Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: As needed

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West_Bounding_Coordinate: -180.0

East_Bounding_Coordinate: 180.0

North_Bounding_Coordinate: 89.5

South_Bounding_Coordinate: -89.5

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Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC WINDS > WIND STRESS

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > ATMOSPHERE > PRECIPITATION > PRECIPITATION AMOUNT

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER > RUNOFF

Theme_Keyword: EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN HEAT BUDGET > EVAPORATION

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

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

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Theme_Keyword: ESIP > EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATION PARTNERS PROGRAM

Theme_Keyword: OCEANS

Theme_Keyword: ENGLISH

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Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: ZAIHUA JI

Contact_Position: TECHNICAL 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)-497-1819

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303)-497-1291

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: zji@ucar.edu

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Latitude_Resolution: 1 degrees

Longitude_Resolution: 1 degrees

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Contact_Organization: UCAR/NCAR/CISL/DSS > Data Support Section, 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

Resource_Description: 260.2

Distribution_Liability:

Not Available

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Format_Name: netCDF > NETwork Common Data Format

Transfer_Size: 1.032 Gbytes

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http://rda.ucar.edu/

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DATA CENTER URL

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http://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/nomads/forms/mom4/CORE....

Access_Instructions:

Forcing for Common Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (CORE)

Fees: Not Available

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date:

Metadata_Review_Date: 20110201

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Person_Primary:

Contact_Person: BOB DATTORE

Contact_Position: DIF AUTHOR

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)-497-1825

Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (303)-497-1291

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dattore@ucar.edu

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Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001-1998

Metadata_Time_Convention: local time