Ocean-atmosphere heat, momentum and freshwater flux, climatology, by Josey et al.

Simon A. Josey, Elizabeth C. Kent, and Peter K. Taylor compiled the SOC monthly mean flux atlas on a 1 degree by 1 degree grid. The fields have been derived from the COADS Release 1a (1980-93) dataset enhanced with additional metadata from the WMO47 list of ships.

The original version 1.1 atlas was completed in 1998. Additional work was done on the heat flux components in 2002. The air-sea heat flux was adjusted according to constraints determined from estimates of oceanic heat transport. Through the adjustment process the original imbalance of about 30 W/m^2 was reduced to about 2 W/m^2.

Both the original version 1.1 atlas and the adjusted air-fluxes are available in this dataset.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1980
    End:  1993

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Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1980
Temporal Range End 1993
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links N/A
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format NetCDF
ASCII
Standardized Resource Format NetCDF
ASCII
Asset Size 170.00 MB
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Resource Support Name Zaihua Ji
Resource Support Email zji@ucar.edu
Resource Support Organization NSF NCAR - Geoscience Data Exchange
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Author Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 2000-04-05
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d540009
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category oceans
Progress completed
Metadata Date 2025-10-03T00:45:23Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d540009
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Southampton Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton. (2000). Ocean-atmosphere heat, momentum and freshwater flux, climatology, by Josey et al.. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d540009/. Accessed 04 October 2025.

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