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[194] | 20 | .. - fplod 20121221T174433Z cratos.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Linux) |
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[53] | 66 | .. _overview: |
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[38] | 67 | |
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[53] | 68 | Overview |
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| 69 | ======== |
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[38] | 70 | |
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[127] | 71 | The TropFlux project aims at providing daily, timely, accurate air-sea heat |
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[204] | 72 | and momentum flux data for the entire 30°N-30°S region. |
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[38] | 73 | |
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[127] | 74 | Wind stresses and the four components of net surface heat flux are currently |
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[202] | 75 | available for the entire 1979 to March 2013 period. |
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[127] | 76 | We are currently working on a regular (~monthly) update of the |
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[202] | 77 | TropFlux product until 3-4 months behind realtime. |
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[38] | 78 | |
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[127] | 79 | TropFlux is largely derived from a combination of |
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[139] | 80 | |erai|_ |
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[127] | 81 | re-analysis data for turbulent and longwave fluxes, and |
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[139] | 82 | |isccp|_ |
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[136] | 83 | surface radiation data for shortwave flux. |
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[127] | 84 | All input products are bias- and amplitude-corrected on the basis of |
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[139] | 85 | |gtma|_ |
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[127] | 86 | data, before surface net heat flux and wind stresses are computed using the |
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[139] | 87 | |coare|_. |
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[127] | 88 | A precise description of the flux computation procedure, as well as a |
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| 89 | detailed evaluation against other timely, daily air-sea heat flux |
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| 90 | alternatives (OAFLUX, NCEP, NCEP2, ERA-I) is provided in |
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[186] | 91 | |pkbetal2012|_. |
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[127] | 92 | The wind stress product is described, evaluated and compared against other |
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[137] | 93 | widely used products (QuikSCAT, NCEP, NCEP2, ERA-I) in |
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[200] | 94 | |pkbetal2013|_ |
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[38] | 95 | |
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[111] | 96 | We believe that this product offers the following advantages: |
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[38] | 97 | |
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[127] | 98 | - better variability and less biases than re-analysis fluxes (and equivalent |
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| 99 | or slightly better than the best performing products: |
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[139] | 100 | |oaflux|_ for heat fluxes and |
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[203] | 101 | |erai|_ |
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[127] | 102 | for wind stresses) , |
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[202] | 103 | - available until March 2013, and soon updated every month, lagging |
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[127] | 104 | realtime by ~3 months, |
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| 105 | - a simple estimate of surface shortwave radiation is provided from OLR |
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| 106 | data, as a near-realtime alternative to the more accurate but irregularly |
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| 107 | updated ISCCP data. |
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[55] | 108 | |
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[147] | 109 | The TropFlux product has been developed under a collaboration between the |
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[204] | 110 | `Laboratoire d'Océanographie: Expérimentation et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) <http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/>`_ from |
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[127] | 111 | `Institut Pierre Simon Laplace <http://www.ipsl.fr/>`_, France and |
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| 112 | `National Institute of Oceanography/CSIR <http://www.nio.org/>`_, India. |
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[203] | 113 | Bilateral scientific visits to France and India have been supported by |
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[204] | 114 | `Institut de Recherche pour le Développement <http://www.ird.fr/>`_, France. |
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[53] | 115 | |
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