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.. TODO
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.. subsection cf. http://sphinx.pocoo.org/rest.html#sections
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.. as Praveen oak for link to directories instead of links n-on files
.. we should add some readme in http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/data/*
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.. EVOLUTIONS
.. ==========
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.. $Id$
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.. $URL$
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.. - fplod 20110708T121409Z aedon.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Darwin)
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..   * units of air temperature and sst are in degree Celsius instead of Kelvin
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.. - fplod 20110707T130407Z cratos.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Linux)
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..   * new dataset : monthly/daily, only one variable/file, time coverage
..     1989-2010, ws variable.
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.. - fplod 20110622T075512Z cratos.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Linux)
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..   * rename from data_out.rst to data_out_website.rst
..     to avoid confusion with adm/guides/data_out.rst
..   * no more password is needed to access to data
..   * replace https://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~jv/data/
..     by http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/data/.
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.. - fplod 20110406T104129Z aedon.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Darwin)
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..   * creation from data_contents.rst to isolated outputs
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.. _data_out_user:

TropFlux products
-----------------

Data Policy
~~~~~~~~~~~
See :ref:`data_access`.

Data Files
~~~~~~~~~~

TropFlux fluxes and flux related meteorological variables are available in 
daily and monthly time scales and are available from the following directories :

 - <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/data/monthly/>
 - <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/data/daily/>

Size of daily files : 650 Mb

Size of monthly files : 21 Mb

* :file:`q2m*.nc` file contain TropFlux specific humidity at 2m above the sea surface.

  Units are in g/kg.

* :file:`t2m*.nc` files contain TropFlux air temperature at 2m above the sea surface.

  Units are in °C.

* :file:`sst*.nc` files contain TropFlux sea surface temperature.

  Units are in °C.

* :file:`ws*.nc` files contain TropFlux wind speed at 10m above the sea surface.
  The "gustiness" correction applied to wind speed for turbulent heat flux
  computations (see `Praveen Kumar et al. (2011) <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/papers/TropFlux_paper_accepted_r.pdf>`_ for details) is not applied in this file.

  Units are in m/s.

* :file:`swr*.nc` files contain TropFlux net shortwave radiation at the sea surface.
  
* :file:`lwr*.nc` files contain TropFlux net longwave radiation at the sea surface.

* :file:`lhf*.nc` files contain TropFlux latent heat flux.

* :file:`shf*.nc` files contain TropFlux sensible heat flux.

  Units are in W/m2.