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[53] | 63 | Overview |
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| 64 | ======== |
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[38] | 65 | |
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[127] | 66 | The TropFlux project aims at providing daily, timely, accurate air-sea heat |
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| 67 | and momentum flux data for the entire 30°N-30°S region. |
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[127] | 69 | Wind stresses and the four components of net surface heat flux are currently |
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| 70 | available for the entire 1979 to September 2011 period. |
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| 71 | We are currently working on a regular (~monthly) update of the |
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[136] | 72 | TropFlux product until 3-4 months behind realtime, which should be |
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| 73 | available in 2012. |
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[38] | 74 | |
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[127] | 75 | TropFlux is largely derived from a combination of |
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[139] | 76 | |erai|_ |
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[127] | 77 | re-analysis data for turbulent and longwave fluxes, and |
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[139] | 78 | |isccp|_ |
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[136] | 79 | surface radiation data for shortwave flux. |
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[127] | 80 | All input products are bias- and amplitude-corrected on the basis of |
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[139] | 81 | |gtma|_ |
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[127] | 82 | data, before surface net heat flux and wind stresses are computed using the |
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[139] | 83 | |coare|_. |
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[127] | 84 | A precise description of the flux computation procedure, as well as a |
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| 85 | detailed evaluation against other timely, daily air-sea heat flux |
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| 86 | alternatives (OAFLUX, NCEP, NCEP2, ERA-I) is provided in |
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[186] | 87 | |pkbetal2012|_. |
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[127] | 88 | The wind stress product is described, evaluated and compared against other |
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[137] | 89 | widely used products (QuikSCAT, NCEP, NCEP2, ERA-I) in |
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[186] | 90 | |pkbetal2012b|_ |
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[38] | 91 | |
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[111] | 92 | We believe that this product offers the following advantages: |
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[38] | 93 | |
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[127] | 94 | - better variability and less biases than re-analysis fluxes (and equivalent |
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| 95 | or slightly better than the best performing products: |
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[139] | 96 | |oaflux|_ for heat fluxes and |
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| 97 | |erai|_ |
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[127] | 98 | for wind stresses) , |
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| 99 | - available until Septempber 2011, and soon updated every month, lagging |
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| 100 | realtime by ~3 months, |
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| 101 | - a simple estimate of surface shortwave radiation is provided from OLR |
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| 102 | data, as a near-realtime alternative to the more accurate but irregularly |
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| 103 | updated ISCCP data. |
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[55] | 104 | |
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[147] | 105 | The TropFlux product has been developed under a collaboration between the |
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| 106 | `Laboratoire d'Océanographie: Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/>`_ from |
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[127] | 107 | `Institut Pierre Simon Laplace <http://www.ipsl.fr/>`_, France and |
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| 108 | `National Institute of Oceanography/CSIR <http://www.nio.org/>`_, India. |
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[136] | 109 | Bilateral scientific visits to France and India have been supported by |
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[140] | 110 | `Institut de Recherche pour le Développement <http://www.ird.fr/>`_, France. |
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[53] | 111 | |
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