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.. _data_access:

Data access
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TropFlux data is freely available for research and education purposes.

Click :ref:`here <data_out_user>` for access to surface heat flux data over 
the 1979-201109 period.

Refer to :ref:`changes`

The data is in NetCDF format.

Please provide us (mailto:tropflux@locean-ipsl.upmc.fr) your name, institute, 
contact e-mail and a short sentence on how you plan to use the data.

Please cite `Praveen Kumar et al. (2011) <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/papers/TropFlux_paper_accepted_r.pdf>`_ in any publication using this data, and acknowledge us using the following sentence: **The TropFlux data is produced under a collaboration between Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (IPSL, Paris, France) and National Institute of Oceanography (NIO, Goa, India), and relies on data provided by the ECMWF Re-Analysis interim (ERA-I) and ISCCP projects.**

Please keep us informed of any published paper that makes use of this data.