Description: Along ship track bulk turbulent heat and momentum fluxes derived using one-minute interval data collected by the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic System (SAMOS) initiative. The fluxes are provided as three products derived using three widely accepted air-sea flux algorithms (Smith 1988, COARE 3.5, and a 2013 update of Bourassa 2006). Datasets are organized by ship and flux algorithm. The dataset uses SAMOS data from 19 research vessels with observations spanning 2005-2015. Data include heat and momentum fluxes, state variables adjusted to 10 meters, and multiple inputs and outputs from the flux algorithms. These data have wide use for satellite product and model evaluation; air-sea interaction, marine biology, chemistry and geoscience research activities; climate science, and marine geoinformatics. The data are concentrated in the oceans around North America, but select data are available from most ocean basins. Fluxes are derived from along cruise track navigational, meteorological, and oceanographic observations from 19 research vessels. Fluxes are derived at one-minute intervals (the same as the source observations) and take advantage of extensive quality control flags on the source SAMOS data. Additional QC flags are applied to the derived fluxes, height adjusted state variables, and other outputs of the flux algorithms. All data are provided in CF and ACDD compliant netCDF files, with extensive metadata. The uncompressed data volume is ca. 5 GB.
Global identifier:
Doi(
"10.1594/PANGAEA.996056",
)
DataMeasurements(
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domain: Unspecified,
station: None,
measured_variables: [
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"Binary Object (File Size)",
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methods: [
"Calculated",
],
},
)
Comment: Input and output variables and parameters included in the netCDF files: quality control flags latent heat flux (Watts meter-2) sensible heat flux (Watts meter-2) Specific humidity height adjusted at 10m (gram kilogram-1) Potential temperature height adjusted at 10m (celsius) Stress magnitude (Newton meter-2) Zonal stress (Newton meter-2) Meridional stress (Newton meter-2) Wind speed height adjusted at 10m (meter second-1) Zonal wind component adjusted at 10m (meter second-1) Meridional wind component adjusted at 10m (meter second-1) dimensionless Monin-Obhukov length scale height (z/L) adjusted at 10m (meter meter-1) momentum roughness length (meter) netCDF4:Cd netCDF4:Cd_qc netCDF4:Cd_qc_secondary netCDF4:Ce netCDF4:Ce_qc netCDF4:Ce_qc_secondary netCDF4:Ch netCDF4:Ch_qc netCDF4:Ch_qc_secondary netCDF4:DIR_instrument netCDF4:P_instrument netCDF4:RAD_LW_instrument netCDF4:RAD_SW_instrument netCDF4:RH_instrument netCDF4:SPD_instrument netCDF4:SSPS_instrument netCDF4:TS_instrument netCDF4:T_instrument netCDF4:dT_skinx netCDF4:dq_skinx netCDF4:flux_calc_qc_secondary netCDF4:hbb netCDF4:in_DIR netCDF4:in_DIR_qc netCDF4:in_DIR_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_P netCDF4:in_P_qc netCDF4:in_P_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_RAD_LW netCDF4:in_RAD_LW_qc netCDF4:in_RAD_LW_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_RAD_SW netCDF4:in_RAD_SW_qc netCDF4:in_RAD_SW_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_RH netCDF4:in_RH_height netCDF4:in_RH_qc netCDF4:in_RH_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_SPD netCDF4:in_SPD_height netCDF4:in_SPD_qc netCDF4:in_SPD_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_SSPS netCDF4:in_SSPS_qc netCDF4:in_SSPS_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_T netCDF4:in_TS netCDF4:in_TS_depth netCDF4:in_TS_qc netCDF4:in_TS_qc_secondary netCDF4:in_T_height netCDF4:in_T_qc netCDF4:in_T_qc_secondary netCDF4:lhf netCDF4:lhf_qc netCDF4:lhf_qc_secondary netCDF4:q_10 netCDF4:q_10_qc netCDF4:q_10_qc_secondary netCDF4:q_star netCDF4:shf netCDF4:shf_qc netCDF4:shf_qc_secondary netCDF4:sst_adj netCDF4:t_10 netCDF4:t_10_qc netCDF4:t_10_qc_secondary netCDF4:t_star netCDF4:tau netCDF4:tau_qc netCDF4:tau_qc_secondary netCDF4:tau_u netCDF4:tau_u_qc netCDF4:tau_u_qc_secondary netCDF4:tau_v netCDF4:tau_v_qc netCDF4:tau_v_qc_secondary netCDF4:thick_skinx netCDF4:u_10 netCDF4:u_10_qc netCDF4:u_10_qc_secondary netCDF4:u_10_u netCDF4:u_10_v netCDF4:u_star netCDF4:u_star_u netCDF4:u_star_v netCDF4:z0_m netCDF4:z0_q netCDF4:z0_t netCDF4:z_over_L
Tags: Meeresbiologie ? Satellit ? Qualitätsmanagement ? Schiff ? Meeresgewässer ? Produktbewertung ? Metadaten ? Forschungsschiff ? Klimaforschung ? Daten ? Klimadaten ? heat flux ? wind stress ?
Bounding boxes: -180° .. 180° x -79° .. 90°
License: Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 (Data access requires registration)
Language: Englisch/English
Modified: 2026-07-15
Last harvest: 20.07.2026 00:48
Time ranges: 2005-05-09 - 2015-06-12
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