WOCEMET V3.0 Surface Flux Data

The WOCE Data Assembly Center/Special Analysis Center (DAC/SAC) for surface meteorology data (hereafter referred to as WOCE-MET) was established at Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies (COAPS), Florida State University (FSU) in order to collect, check, and distribute all underway surface meteorological data recorded during WOCE. We are very pleased to be able to present this disk as part of a comprehensive WOCE package (version 3.0).

This disk contains surface stress and turbulent flux fields created by the SAC, the Southampton Oceanography Institute, satellite fluxes from QSCAT, as well as data from the US Navy's NOGAPS model. A companion archive contains meteorology data from WOCE platforms in the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, and Indian Oceans.

New to this disk since version 2.0 are the objective FSU Winds and the flux code used to compute fluxes from the surface meteorology data on the V3.0 companion data set.

The contents of this disk are accessible via directories and hypertext documents. The following table contains main informational dirctories and briefly describes the data and documents accessible from each:

Disk Contents:

Info Pages	Contents
DATA	Contains the NEW Objective FSU Winds, Tropical Atlantic pseudostress and SST analyses (Servain), QuikSCAT pseudostress analyses, the Tropical Pacific and Indian pseudostress analyses (FSU), the surface flux fields for the Indian Ocean (FSU), SOC's surface flux climatology, the NOGAPS global model surface stresses (US Navy) and the Shriver & O'Brien Pacific analysis 1930-1989.
HTML	The hypertext form of the disk documentation. The user would do much better by using this interface rather than from a command prompt.
IMAGES	Contains all the images used in the hypertext interface.
PLOTS	Plots of the FSU tropical wind analyses.
CODE	Source code to allow computation of turbulent fluxes from our WOCE Surface Meteorology files.

This disk has been tested on Mac OS/OSX, Windows 95/98/NT, and UNIX using browsers Netscape 4.5, 4.61, 4.78, Communicator Pro 4.04, and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5, 5.5. All PDF documents have been tested with version 4.0, no assurance is made for other versions. If problems arise, please contact us. There are a number of suffixes which denote the following file types:

• .PDF - Adobe Portable Document Format
• .NC - netCDF data file
• .NC.GZ - zipped netCDF data file
• .HTML - Hypertext file suitable for a WWW browser
• .XML - Hypertext file suitable for a WWW browser
• .GIF - image file, typically viewable in a WWW browser
• .JPG, .JPEG - image file, typically viewable in a WWW browser

Support for WOCE-MET was provided by the National Science Foundation/Physical Oceanography Section, grant OCE-9818727. COAPS receives its base funding from the Physical Oceanography Section of the Office of Naval Research.

Email: wocemet@coaps.fsu.edu

(850) 644-6918 (Voice)
(850) 644-4841 (Fax)

Anonymous FTP: wocemet.fsu.edu
WWW: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/WOCE

The image represents links that go off this disk and connect to the world wide web. These links are subject to fail in the future if the desired address has changed after the production of this disk.

Last Modified: Fri, 4 APR 2002

Webmaster: Mark Bennett
Contacts: Jennifer Lovell and Shawn Smith
Email: wocemet@coaps.fsu.edu
Copyright (c) 2001 COAPS