These data are the Goddard Satellite-based Surface Turbulent Fluxes Version-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 the Seasonal Climatology product; data are projected to equidistant Grid that covers the globe at 1x1 degree cell size, resulting in data arrays of 360x180 size. The seasonal product is a result of averaging of three consecutive months: December-February, March-May, June-August, and September-November.  There is one HDF-EOS5 file per season. A finer resolution, 0.25 deg,  of this product has been released as Version 3.

Starting with Version 2c, there is only one set of Combined data, "Set1". The Seasonal Climatology HDF-EOS5 file also contains one extra grid of NCEP Climatology, "NCEP".

SET1 contains 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 NCEP grid contains 4 variables:
"SST"        'sea surface skin temperature' (C)
"Psea_level" 'sea level pressure' (hPa)
"Tair_2m"    '2m air temperature' (C)
"Qsat"       'sea surface saturation humidity' (g/kg)

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


The seasonal temporal and one-degree spatial resolution of the product can be used to examining climate variability at these scales. Oceanic evaporation contributes to the net fresh water input to the oceans and drives the upper ocean density structure and consequently the circulation of the oceans.

 The short name for this product is GSSTFSC

Parameters contained in the data files include the following:
Variable Name|Description|Units 
 Psea_level|sea level pressure|(hPa)
 Qsat|sea surface saturation humidity|(g/kg)
 SST|sea surface skin temperature|(C)
 Tair_2m|2m air temperature|(C)
 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