Table of Content
  1. Surface fluxes (the MIXED product)
  2. SST
  3. Surface fields in the SO (ECCO2 solution)

Surface fluxes, a MIXED product

This dataset is not meant to be distributed for a large use, this is experimental and may be downloaded after you contacted me. No particular post-processing check had been done regarding global net integrals.

This set of sea surface fluxes (latent, sensible, net short and long wave heat fluxes together with the wind stress) was computed with COARE 3.0 bulks formulae, using the ECMWF Operationnal System atmospheric state interpolated on the 1/4 degree grid of TMI-AMSRE satellite SSTs.

There is one binary file (netcdf coming soon...) per variable and per year from 2003 to 2006. Each binary file contains daily records of the year.

Fields are available here

Different sets of fluxes are available, depending on the domain you're interested in:

Grids are in matlab format, availble here.

A matlab routine to read files is here, using NX,NY given in grid files.

Credits input datas:

  • Atmospheric state: ECMWF , prepared by Charmaine King at MIT

Bibliography:

G. Maze, G. Forget, M. Buckley and J. Marshall: Using transformation and formation maps to study the role of air-sea
heat fluxes in North Atlantic Eighteen Degree Water formation
Submitted to JPO (Jan. 14th 2008)
Abstract | PDF | HTML

SST

This SST product was not produced or modified by me. This is just a copy of datas freely available at RSS website.

Satellite Sea Surface Temperature from TMI-AMSRE are available in netcdf and binary files over the global ocean and the North Atlantic. These are from the RSS website and were downloaded here.

Under the netcdf format, datas are stored in individual directories, one per daily record, from 2002/06/01 to 2007/06/02. Global and North Atlantic available.

Under the binary format, there is one gzip file per day of each year.

Other

For MITgcm outputs related to the ECCO2 project, check at: http://scripts.mit.edu/~gmaze/www/?page_id=8