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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
https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/21b5b970a6844d72afa4b2c551944d9b
Identifier
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 21b5b970a6844d72afa4b2c551944d9b
Author
  Unavailable - Berry, David I. ( author )
Author
  Unavailable - Kent, Elizabeth C. ( author )
Custodian
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
pointofContact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
Publisher
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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dataset Dataset
Keywords
  • SOC
  • NOCS
  • NOC1.1
  • NOC
  • ocean
  • freshwater
  • winstress
  • heat flux
  • air-sea interaction
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • atmospheric conditions
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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.
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Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Topic category
  • 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
Distribution format
  • File format is COARDS compliant netCDF. ()

Distributor
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - Data Center Contact
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
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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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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
Point of contact
  NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)
British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK
+44(0)1235 446432
 
 

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