Oberhuber's Climatological Atlas of Heat Fluxes and Radiation Budget Over the Global Oceans Based on COADS from NCAR and LDEO/IRI Climate Data Library

All data are given on a 2 x 2 latitude/longitude grid. Meteorological and oceanographic parameters contained in this data set include air temperature, mixed layer temperature, precipitation, relative humidity, cloud cover, wind speed, sea level pressure, salinity, absorbed solar radiation, outgoing longwave radiation, net radiation, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, net downward heat flux, net freshwater flux, buoyancy flux, frictional velocity, newtonian cooling rate, and transfer coefficient for latent heat.

Precipitation data were prepared by Dennis Shea (NCAR). It was derived from land or island station records and completed by satellite observations. Salinity data required to compute buoyancy fluxes were taken from Sydney Levitus (NOAA/NODC).