Ocean Observing and Climate
NOCS Surface Flux Dataset v2.0
Fluxes from NOCS v2.0 (W m-2)
Building on Version 1 of the NOC Climatology and recent work by the Surface Processes sub-group, a new in-situ surface meteorology and flux dataset has been developed (NOCS v2.0). The dataset development is being funded under the Oceans2025 sustained observations theme.
New features in NOCS v2.0 include:
- Extended to cover period 1973 to 2009
- Based on ICOADS release 2.4 (release 2.5 used for 2007 - 2009)
- Uncertainty estimates for each grid-box
- Smoothed using Optimal Interpolation
- Latest information on bias adjustment used
** NOCS v2.0 is available to download from the CISL Research Data Archive at NCAR. **
Dataset documentation
- Berry, D.I., and E.C. Kent, 2009: A New Air-Sea Interaction Gridded Dataset from ICOADS With Uncertainty Estimates. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90, 645-656.
- Berry, D. I., and E. C. Kent, 2010: Air-Sea fluxes from ICOADS: the construction of a new gridded dataset with uncertainty estimates.International Journal of Climatology (early online), DOI:10.1002/joc.2059.
Background Publications
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- Kent, E. C., J. J. Kennedy, D. I. Berry and R. O. Smith, 2010: Effects of instrumentation changes on ocean surface temperature measured in situ. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, Early Online
- Thomas, B. R., E. C. Kent, V. R. Swail and D. I. Berry, 2008: Analysis of Monthly Mean Marine Winds Adjusted for Observation Method and Height, International Journal of Climatology, 28(6), 747-763.
- Kent, E. C., S. D. Woodruff and D. I. Berry, 2007: Metadata from WMO Publication No. 47 and an Assessment of Voluntary Observing Ship Observation Heights in ICOADS, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 24(2), 214-234.
- Kent, E. C., and P. K. Taylor, 2006: Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST, Part 1: Methods of Measurement. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23(3), 464-475.
- Kent, E. C., and P. G. Challenor, 2006: Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST, Part 2: Random Errors. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23(3), 476-486.
- Kent, E. C., and A. Kaplan, 2006: Toward Estimating Climatic Trends in SST, Part 3: Systematic Biases. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 23(3), 487-500.
- Berry, D. I. and E. C. Kent, 2005: The Effect of Instrument Exposure on Marine Air Temperatures: An assessment using VOSClim data, International Journal of Climatology, 25(7), 1007-1022.
- Kent, E. C. and D. I. Berry, 2005: Quantifying Random Errors in Voluntary Observing Ships Meteorological Observations, International Journal of Climatology, 25(7), 843-856.
- Berry, D. I., E. C. Kent and P. K. Taylor , 2004: An analytical model of heating errors in marine air temperatures from ships, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 21(8), 1198 - 1215.
- Kent, E. C., P.K. Taylor and P. G. Challenor, 2000: The Effect of Successive Correction on Variability Estimates for Climatological Datasets, Journal of Climate, 13(11), 1845-1857.
- Josey, S. A., E. C. Kent and P. K. Taylor, 1999: New Insights into the Ocean Heat Budget Closure Problem from Analysis of the SOC Air-sea Flux Climatology. Journal of Climate, 12(9), 2856 - 2880.
- Kent, E. C. and P. K. Taylor, 1997: Choice of a Beaufort Equivalent Scale. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 14(2), 228-242.
- Josey, S. A., E. C. Kent and P. K. Taylor, 1995: Seasonal variations between sampling and classical mean turbulent heat flux estimates in the North Atlantic, Annales Geophysicae, 13, 1054-1064. Abstract only
- Kent, E. C., P. K. Taylor, B. S. Truscott and J. S. Hopkins, 1993: The accuracy of voluntary observing ship's meteorological observations - Results of the VSOP-NA. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 10(4), 591-608.
