Collection of oceanographic and atmospheric climatologies

• Other Authors: Dr Edward King (isManagedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing
• Subjects: Physical Oceanography; EARTH SCIENCES; OCEANOGRAPHY; Indian; Pacific; Sadler; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/collection-oceanographic-atmospheric-climatologies/15222

Historical oceanographic data and atmospheric climatologies. Includes global and Southern Ocean atlas, bathymetry, heat flux, sea surface temperature, precipitation, and wind and wind stress field data. Atlases: * Gordon; Southern Ocean atlas - individual casts (gordon_atlas.nc) * Gordon; Southern Ocean atlas - gridded data set (gordon_grid.nc) * Hastenrath; data from the Hastenrath Indian Ocean Atlas (hastenrath_indian.nc) * indo_temp_sal; SST and salinities; Indian Ocean, 1903-1992 (indo_temp_sal.nc) * Jones; monthly mean Indian Ocean, wind stress and turbulent heat fluxes, 2-deg mesh (jones_flux.nc) * Jones; monthly mean Indian ocean, standard meteorological variables, 2-deg mesh (jones_met.nc) * NCEP; climatic monthly mean fields based on the period 1976 to 1997 inclusive (ncep_76_97.nc) * NCEP; monthly mean fields, 1976 to 1998 inclusive (ncep_monthly.nc) * Olbers; Southern Ocean data, 1 degree grid, 38 levels (olbers_grid.nc) * Sadler & Lander; Tropical Marine Climate Atlas (sadler.nc) * SOC; Global Air-Sea Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Climatology (soc_climatology.nc) Bathymetry: * terrainbase; 5 minute gridded world elevation/ocean depth (updated version of etopo5) (terrainbase.nc) * etopo5; 5 minute gridded world elevation/ocean depth (outdated - use terrainbase instead) (etopo5.nc) * Sandwell and Smith, NGDC, version 8.2; sea floor topography, 2 minute in longitude, 1.4 minute (approx) in latitude, 72S to 72N (topo_ngdc_8.2.nc) Heat flux: * ERBE; shortwave surface radiation budget data; all-sky conditions; all months in 1985-1989 (erbe.nc) * Esbensen and Kushnir; global heat flux data (esbensen.nc) * Oberhuber; global heat balance data (oberhuber.nc) * NOAA NCEP CPC; daily mean global outgoing long-wave radiation (olr.day.mean.nc) Levitus Climatology: 1982 * annual mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_82.nc) * seasonal mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 24 level grid (levitus_seasonal_82.nc) * monthly mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_82.nc) 1997 corrections to the original 1994 release * annual mean; T, S, O2, OSAT, AOU, PO4, SIO3, NO3 on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_97.nc) * seasonal mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_salinity_97.nc) * seasonal mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_temp_97.nc) * monthly mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_salinity_97.nc) * monthly mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_temp_97.nc) 1998 * annual mean; T, S, O2, OSAT, AOU, PO4, SIO3, NO3, CHLOR on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_98.nc) * seasonal mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_salinity_98.nc) * seasonal mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_temp_98.nc) * monthly mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_salinity_98.nc) * monthly mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_temp_98.nc) Sea Surface Temperature: * Bottomley et al(1990); Global sea surface temperatures (sst_bottomley.nc) * Reconstructed Reynolds SST; long term mean (1950-1992) (sst_cac_recon_ltm.nc) * Reynolds monthly mean (CAC); November 1981 to present (sst.mnmean.1981-present.nc) * Reynolds weekly mean (CAC);November 1981 to December 1989 (sst.wkmean.1981-1989.nc) * Reynolds weekly mean (CAC); January 1990 to the present (sst.wkmean.1990-present.nc) Precipitation: * Jaeger; monthly mean precipitation on a 72x73 grid (jaeger.nc) * Legates; monthly mean precipitation on a 720x361 grid (legates.nc) * msu version 2; total monthly precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (msu_precip_2.nc) * msu version 3; total monthly precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (msu_precip_3.nc) * CMAP (xie & Arkin); monthly mean precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (precip_cmap.nc) Wind and wind stress fields: * Hellerman and Rosenstein; monthly mean wind stress (hellerman.nc) * NCEP; climatic monthly mean fields; based on 1976 to 1997 inclusive (winds_ncep_clim_76_97.nc) * NCEP; monthly mean fields from 1976 to 1998 inclusive (winds_ncep_monthly.nc) * ECMWF (Trenberth); monthly mean wind stress data (winds_trenberth.nc) * Wyrtki; tropical Pacific winds and wind stresses (winds_wyrtki.nc)