History

TropFlux project started in mid 2008 as joint research collaboration between National Institute of Oceanography (NIO, CSIR), India, and Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL), Paris. TropFlux project aims at producing daily, timely, high quality air-sea fluxes over the global tropical ocean belt (30N-30S). Presently, it is available on a 1 x 1 degree grid from 1989-2009. Eventually, we hope to update these fluxes routinely about 3-4 months behind realtime.

The air-sea fluxes are largely derived from ERA-interim re-analysis (see http://www.ecmwf.int/research/era/do/get/era-interim for details) and ISCCP project (http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/) shortwave fluxes with ad hoc corrections derived from the tropical moored buoy array. See the reference below (available in this directory as https://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~jv/data/TropFlux_Climate_Dynamics_r.pdf) for more details.