Climate Data Record Program

Surface and near-surface parameters of wind speed, temperature, and humidity will be derived from a combination of satellite observations, with a focus on the use of these variables towards determination of the air-sea turbulent heat fluxes. This research falls directly in line with the NOAA Climate Data Records focus on the Earth’s energy and water cycles. The goals for this project are:

• The production of a long-term set of surface and near-surface parameters leading to fluxes with consistent, homogeneous errors that have been subjected to a rigorous error analysis
• Appropriate documentation for the dataset
• Codes for the dataset
• A procedure for quality control

The dataset will be a follow-on to the CDR SeaFlux Version 1 dataset.  This dataset covers the time period of 1988 through near-real-time, with a 3-hourly, 0.25º resolution over the global oceans. It includes the variables of sea surface and 10-m air temperature, wind speed, and 10-m air specific humidity, as well as the resulting latent and sensible heat fluxes.  This project is supported by the NOAA Climate Data Records Program.

For more information (and data), please see the following products from the Climate Data Record Program website.