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.. TODO
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.. anchors
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.. better ReST
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.. EVOLUTIONS
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.. - fplod 20101208T162553Z aedon.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr (Darwin)
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..    * creation from https://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~jv/data/TropFlux_README.pdf
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.. history:

History
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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.