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NOCS 2.0: National Oceanography Centre Southampton Surface Flux Climatology (version 2.0)
The National Oceanography Centre Southampton (NOCS) Version 2.0 Surface Flux Dataset is a monthly mean gridded dataset of marine surface measurements and derived fluxes constructed using optimal interpolation. Input for the period 1973 to 2006 are ICOADS Release 2.4 ship data, the update from 2007 to 2014 uses ICOADS Release 2.5 and data after 2007 are preliminary. The dataset is presented as a time series of monthly mean values on a 1 degree area grid.
The quality of the gridded data is quantified by estimates of random, bias and total uncertainty. The monthly means were derived from daily estimates of each variable and the standard deviation of these daily values is also available. Please see nocs2_variable_defs document for detailed variable information. Users are advised to take account of the uncertainty estimates provided, and to note that in very poorly sampled regions, such as the Southern Ocean, the uncertainty estimates themselves may be unreliable.
Surface meteorological fields have been adjusted to account for varying measurement heights and for known biases (Berry and Kent 2009, Berry and Kent 2011). Surface fluxes have been calculated from daily fields of the surface meteorological parameters using bulk parameterisations (Reed 1977; Clark et al. 1974; Smith 1980; 1988).
The NOCS v2.0 flux dataset was funded by the Oceans2025 project.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-09-22T03:51:07
- Date (Creation)
- 2014-09-22T03:51:07
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 21b5b970a6844d72afa4b2c551944d9b
- Maintenance and update frequency
- unknown Unknown
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- dataset Dataset
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- SOC
- NOCS
- NOC1.1
- NOC
- ocean
- freshwater
- winstress
- heat flux
- air-sea interaction
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Access to these data is available to any registered CEDA user. Please Login or Register for a CEDA account to gain access.
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- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1973-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2014-12-31T23:59:59
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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File format is COARDS compliant netCDF.
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File format is COARDS compliant netCDF.
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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Josey, S.A. et al., 1998: The Southampton Oceanography Centre (SOC) Ocean - Atmosphere, Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Atlas
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NOC1.1 Home page at NOC
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Berry, D.I. and Kent, E.C., 2011: Air-Sea Fluxes from ICOADS: The Construction of a New Gridded Dataset with Uncertainty Estimates
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NOCS2.0 variable definitions
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Berry, D.I. and E.C. Kent, 2009: A New Air-Sea Interaction Gridded Dataset From ICOADS with Uncertainty Estimates
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- dataset Dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data is provided by NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) to the BADC for archiving.
- File identifier
- 21b5b970a6844d72afa4b2c551944d9b XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Parent identifier
- NOCS (National Oceanography Centre, Southampton) Flux Datasets: marine surface meteorology, freshwater and heat fluxes. 23443335e20d25df00ab67880b10c31c
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-15T03:05:41
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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