NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) Flux Datasets: marine surface meteorology, freshwater and heat fluxes.

The National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) produced a collection of Surface Flux Datasets which contains estimates of the following parameters (including uncertainty) on a 1° monthly mean grid for the global ice-free ocean:

- Air temperature (at 10 m)

- Specific Humidity (at 10 m)

- Wind Speed (at 10 m)

- Sea level pressure

- Sea surface temperature (bulk)

- Latent heat flux

- Sensible heat flux

- Net longwave radiation

- Net shortwave radiation

The datasets are:

NOC1.1 - National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1) - 1973-2005

NOC1.1a - Adjusted National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1a) -1973-2005

NOC2.0 - National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 2.0) - 1973-

Note that the NOC1 climatology was previously referred to as the Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) flux climatology and was renamed when the SOC became the NOC. The SOC climatology existed in two versions: the 'Original' set of fields and an 'Adjusted' set in which closure of the ocean heat budget was achieved using inverse analysis. These have now become:

NOC1.1 - Previously the 'Original' SOC climatology including Heat flux and wind stress fields, Freshwater flux fields and Meteorological fields

NOC1.1a - Previously the 'Adjusted' SOC climatology (climatological monthly fields) including Heat flux fields only.

These data can be used for many purposes, including assessing the performance of numerical models, assessing the measurements we get from satellites and understanding how the ocean and atmosphere interact in recent decades.

For background information on Heat Fluxes, please see links under Docs.

Funding has been received from the Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office for the production and analysis of this collection of data.

Date (Publication): 2009-12-10T03:20:50

Date (Creation): 2009-12-10T03:20:50

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c

Citation identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Taylor, Peter K.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Josey, Simon	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Berry, David I.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Kent, Elizabeth C.	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

Update scope: Series

Keywords

NOCS
NOC
heatflux
air-sea interactions

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: All data within this dataset collection are available to any registered CEDA user.

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Under the following licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1973-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2014-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
Contact data centre for format details.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/noc_flux/	NOCS Flux data Homepage

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://swfsc.noaa.gov/publications/cr/1974/7406.pdf	Clark, N. E., L. Eber, R. M. Laurs, J. A. Renner, and J. F. T. Saur, 1974: Heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere in the eastern North Pacific for 1961

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://noc.ac.uk/science-technology/earth-ocean-system/atmosphere-ocean/air-sea-interaction	NOC Air Sea Interaction

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/nocs_flux/metadata/Heat-Fluxes-Intro.html	Introduction on Heat Fluxes

Hierarchy level: Series

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

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File identifier: 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2025-06-16T02:26:55

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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