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Atlas of surface marine data 1994, volume 3: Anomalies of heat and momentum fluxes
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1994
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Series: NOAA Atlas NESDIS ; 8
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Description:This atlas presents objectively analyzed fields of surface marine climatology and anomalies of zonal and meridional wind stress, the cube of oceanic friction velocity, short wave radiation, long wave radiation, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, and constrained net heat flux over most of the global ocean. These revised monthly mean fields are derived from individual observations in the Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (COADS) from January 1945 to December 1989 and are analyzed on a 1-degree by 1-degree global grid. Corrections have been made to reduce wind speed bias associated with an erroneous Beaufort equivalent scale and to quality control night-time fractional cloud cover observations according to the brightness of the sky. In addition to seasonal anomalies, maps of seasonal climatology, standard deviations, and the number of observations are presented for each quantity.
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Rights Information:CC0 Public Domain
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