These data are part of the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes Version-2c (GSSTF 2c) Dataset recently produced through a MEaSURES funded project led by Dr. Chung-Lin Shie (UMBC/GEST, NASA/GSFC), converted to HDF-EOS5 format. The stewardship of this HDF-EOS5 dataset is part of the MEaSUREs project, http://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/community-data-system-programs/measures-projects/surface-turbulent-fluxes-esdr
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This is a Daily (24-hour) product; data are projected to equidistant Grid that covers the globe at 1x1 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 360x180 size.  A finer resolution, 0.25 deg,  of this product has been released as Version 3.

The daily fluxes  are produced for each individual available SSM/I satellite tapes (e.g., F08, F10, F11, F13, F14 and F15), and then serve as input to the Combined daily fluxes (GES_DISC_GSSTF_2c).

These HDF-EOS5 files contain one grid that have 9 variables:

"E"    'latent heat flux' (W/m**2),
"STu"  'zonal wind stress' (N/m**2),
"STv"  'meridional wind stress' (N/m**2),
"H"    'sensible heat flux' (W/m**2),
"Qair" 'surface air (~10-m) specific humidity' (g/kg),
"WB"   'lowest 500-m precipitable water' (g/cm**2),
"U"    '10-m wind speed' (m/s),
"DQ"   'sea-air humidity difference' (g/kg)
"Tot_Precip_Water" 'total precipitable water' (g/cm**2)

The double-quoted labels are the short names of the data fields in the HDF-EOS5 files.

The short name for this data set is GSSTF_F15

Parameters contained in the data files include the following:
Variable Name|Description|Units 
 DQ|sea-air humidity difference|(g/kg)
 E|latent heat flux|(W/m^^2)
 H|sensible heat flux|(W/m^^2)
 Qair|surface air (~10-m) specific humidity|(g/kg)
 STu|zonal wind stress|(N/m^^2)
 STv|meridional wind stress|(N/m^^2)
 Tot_Precip_Water|Total Precipitable Water|(g/cm^^2)
 U|10-m wind speed|(m/s)
 WB|lowest 500-m precipitable water|(g/cm^^2)
End of parameter information