Archived time-series of Atlantic Ocean meteorological variables and surface fluxes
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https://hdl.handle.net/1912/10399DOI
10.1575/1912/10399Keyword
Meteorology; ClimatologyAbstract
Time-series of monthly averages of latent, sensible and radiational
heat fluxes and momentum fluxes at the surfaces of the North
and South Atlantic Oceans were calculated from ship weather observations.
These fluxes, together with values of meteorological variables
have been averaged over entire Marsden squares (10X10° squares) for
all months from January 1948 through December 1972. The method of
computing fluxes from ship weather observations, listing of variables
averaged, addition of sea-ice coverage of sub-polar regions, correction
of albedos for the presence of sea ice, correction of infrared
radiational exchange for humidity conditions of the upper atmosphere,
and format of the data on magnetic tapes are described. Statistics
of the fluxes and variables have been computed. Standard data tapes
containing these time series and statistics are available.
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Bunker, A. F., & Goldsmith, R. A. (1979). Archived time-series of Atlantic Ocean meteorological variables and surface fluxes. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. https://doi.org/10.1575/1912/10399Related items
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