USGODAE Surface Observations

USGODAE SFCOBS - Surface Observations: Ship, fixed/drifting buoy, and CMAN in-situ surface temperatures via Live Access Server

SFCOBS - Surface Observations: Ship, fixed/drifting buoy, and CMAN in-situ surface temperatures Observational data from the FNMOC Ocean QC process are posted in near real-time to the USGODAE server. These files contain all of the unclassified in-situ data used to initialize the US Navy NOGAPS model, and all of the climate and background (forecast) values used in the QC process. Format: Binary (Decoder source available online)

Variables
Sea surface temperature (°C)
ZonalGlobal by varies
MeridionalGlobal by varies
Vertical  
TemporalMar 2001 to Dec 2004 by varies
Static?no
Volume
Serverpublic:
Sourcehttp://www.usgodae.org/cgi-bin/datalist.pl?summary=Go&dset=fnmoc_obs_sfcobs 
AcquiredAug 28, 2004
APDRC contactJim Potemra
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