Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data - HOAPS-3 - twice daily composite ...

• Main Authors: Andersson, Axel, Bakan, Stephan, Fennig, Karsten, Grassl, Hartmut, Klepp, Christian, Schulz, Joerg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: World Data Center for Climate (WDCC) at DKRZ 2007
• Subjects: Climate; HOAPS; SSM/I; air-sea-fluxes; remote sensing; satellite; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/wdcc/hoaps3_daily; http://cera-www.dkrz.de/WDCC/ui/Compact.jsp?acronym=HOAPS3_DAILY

Project: Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data - For more information see http://www.hoaps.zmaw.de/ Summary: The Hamburg Ocean Atmosphere Parameters and Fluxes from Satellite Data (HOAPS) set is a completely satellite based climatology of precipitation, turbulent heat fluxes and freshwater budget (evaporation minus precipitation) as well as related athmospheric state variables over the global ice free oceans. All variables are derived from SSM/I passive microwave radiometers, except for the SST, which is taken from AVHRR measurements. The dataset includes multi-satellite averages, inter-sensor calibration, and an efficient sea ice detection procedure. Changes in this version are a longer time series, now containing data from 1987 to 2005, a new neural network based precipitation algorithm, and inclusion of the RSMAS/NODC Pathfinder Version 5 SST fields. Additionally a new 85 GHz synthesis procedure has been implemented, making a continuous time series for all parameters for the ...