935c64a1c57bba456e036f7f5767c339 English 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c dataset NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointOfContact 2026-05-10T02:01:41 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 NOC 1.1: National Oceanography Centre Surface Flux Climatology (version 1.1) 2014-09-22T03:48:19 publication 2014-09-22T03:48:19 creation https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/935c64a1c57bba456e036f7f5767c339 935c64a1c57bba456e036f7f5767c339 NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) This dataset contains climatological monthly mean files of air-sea fluxes on a global grid in netCDF format produced at the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). It includes freshwater flux, heat flux and windstress and selected meteorological variables. Each data file contains 12 climatological monthly means on a global 1 x 1 grid for a particular flux field: Heat flux and windstress: latent heat flux (hfls), net heat flux (hfns), sensible heat flux (hfss), precipitation (pr), net longwave flux (rls), net shortwave flux (rss), wind stress (eastward) (tauu), wind stress (northward) (tauv). Units are W/m2 for the heat flux and N/m2 for the stress. Also available are freshwater fields: evaporation (emy), precipitation (pmy), net evaporation (epmy) Units are m/yr in each case (divide by 12 to get m/month). Meteorology fields are: u10 - 10m wind speed, units m/s t10 - 10m air temperature, units deg C q10 - 10m specific humidity, units g/kg sst - sea surface temperature, units deg C ana - total cloud amount, units octas slp - sea level pressure, units mb The flux fields have been derived from the COADS1a (1980-93) dataset enhanced with additional metadata from the WMO47 list of ships. A full description of the fields is given in The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas (see link under Docs) and a parallel journal paper (Josey et al, 1999) describes the results of various evaluation studies (see links under Docs). It is important to note that the quality of the fields has a strong spatial dependence which reflects the global distribution of ship observations. Quality is likely to be high in the well sampled North Atlantic & North Pacific but to decrease in the Southern Hemisphere. In particular, south of 40 S the errors in the fields are likely to be large and we recognise the existence of spurious features which have been generated during the objective analysis of the original raw fields. NOC stress that caution must be taken when interpreting the fields in this region. In addition, note that the current version of the fields does not give closure of the global heat budget, the imbalance being a global mean net heat gain by the ocean of 29 W/m2. Work was carried out to identify regions in which NOC scientists believe the net heat gain has been overestimated. Results from several regional comparisons against high quality meteorological buoy data indicate that in those regions for which comparisons have been possible the NOC net heat flux estimates agree well with independent buoy measurements. Hence, NOC have not applied global adjustments to the heat flux components in order to balance the heat budget at this stage of their analysis. See NOC1.1a for adjusted heat fluxes. Funding has been received from the Hadley Centre, UK Meteorological Office for the production and analysis of this dataset. Please note that NOC1.1 - Previously the 'Original' SOC climatology (climatological and individual monthly fields) Josey, Simon Unavailable author Unavailable author Taylor, Peter K. Unavailable author Unavailable author Kent, Elizabeth C. Unavailable author Unavailable author NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) custodian +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk custodian NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) distributor +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) point_of_contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk pointofContact NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) publisher +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk publisher notPlanned dataset SOC NOCS NOC1.1 NOC ocean freshwater winstress heat flux air-sea interaction atmospheric conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication otherRestrictions Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access. otherRestrictions 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. grid English climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -180.0 180.0 -90.0 90.0 1973-01-01T00:00:00 2005-12-31T00:00:00 File format is COARDS compliant netCDF. Files are compressed (.Z). NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) Data Center Contact +44(0)1235 446432 British Atmospheric Data Centre STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Harwell Oxford OX11 0QX UK badc@rl.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/935c64a1c57bba456e036f7f5767c339 CEDA Data Catalogue Page Detail and access information for the resource information http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/nocs_flux/data/noc1.1 DOWNLOAD Download Data download http://noc.ac.uk/science-technology/earth-ocean-system/atmosphere-ocean/nocs-flux-dataset-archive NOC1.1 Home page at NOC No further details. information http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/55571/ Josey, S. A. et al., 1999: New Insights into the Ocean Heat Budget Closure Problem from Analysis of the SOC Air–Sea Flux Climatology No further details. information http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/19117/ Josey, S.A. et al., 1998: The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas No further details. information dataset 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 2010-12-08 Data is provided by NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) to the BADC for archiving.