Collection of oceanographic and atmospheric climatologies

Historical oceanographic data and atmospheric climatologies. Includes global and Southern Ocean atlas, bathymetry, heat flux, sea surface temperature, precipitation, and wind and wind stress field data.
Atlases:
* Gordon; Southern Ocean atlas - individual casts (gordon_atlas.nc)
* Gordon; Southern Ocean atlas - gridded data set (gordon_grid.nc)
* Hastenrath; data from the Hastenrath Indian Ocean Atlas (hastenrath_indian.nc)
* indo_temp_sal; SST and salinities; Indian Ocean, 1903-1992 (indo_temp_sal.nc)
* Jones; monthly mean Indian Ocean, wind stress and turbulent heat fluxes, 2-deg mesh (jones_flux.nc)
* Jones; monthly mean Indian ocean, standard meteorological variables, 2-deg mesh (jones_met.nc)
* NCEP; climatic monthly mean fields based on the period 1976 to 1997 inclusive (ncep_76_97.nc)
* NCEP; monthly mean fields, 1976 to 1998 inclusive (ncep_monthly.nc)
* Olbers; Southern Ocean data, 1 degree grid, 38 levels (olbers_grid.nc)
* Sadler & Lander; Tropical Marine Climate Atlas (sadler.nc)
* SOC; Global Air-Sea Heat, Momentum and Freshwater Flux Climatology (soc_climatology.nc)
Bathymetry:
* terrainbase; 5 minute gridded world elevation/ocean depth (updated version of etopo5) (terrainbase.nc)
* etopo5; 5 minute gridded world elevation/ocean depth (outdated - use terrainbase instead) (etopo5.nc)
* Sandwell and Smith, NGDC, version 8.2; sea floor topography, 2 minute in longitude, 1.4 minute (approx) in latitude, 72S to 72N (topo_ngdc_8.2.nc)
Heat flux:
* ERBE; shortwave surface radiation budget data; all-sky conditions; all months in 1985-1989 (erbe.nc)
* Esbensen and Kushnir; global heat flux data (esbensen.nc)
* Oberhuber; global heat balance data (oberhuber.nc)
* NOAA NCEP CPC; daily mean global outgoing long-wave radiation (olr.day.mean.nc)
Levitus Climatology:
1982
* annual mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_82.nc)
* seasonal mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 24 level grid (levitus_seasonal_82.nc)
* monthly mean; t and s fields on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_82.nc)
1997 corrections to the original 1994 release
* annual mean; T, S, O2, OSAT, AOU, PO4, SIO3, NO3 on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_97.nc)
* seasonal mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_salinity_97.nc)
* seasonal mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_temp_97.nc)
* monthly mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_salinity_97.nc)
* monthly mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_temp_97.nc)
1998
* annual mean; T, S, O2, OSAT, AOU, PO4, SIO3, NO3, CHLOR on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_annual_98.nc)
* seasonal mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_salinity_98.nc)
* seasonal mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 33 level grid (levitus_seasonal_temp_98.nc)
* monthly mean salinity; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_salinity_98.nc)
* monthly mean temperature; on a 1x1 degree, 19 level grid (levitus_monthly_temp_98.nc)
Sea Surface Temperature:
* Bottomley et al(1990); Global sea surface temperatures (sst_bottomley.nc)
* Reconstructed Reynolds SST; long term mean (1950-1992) (sst_cac_recon_ltm.nc)
* Reynolds monthly mean (CAC); November 1981 to present (sst.mnmean.1981-present.nc)
* Reynolds weekly mean (CAC);November 1981 to December 1989 (sst.wkmean.1981-1989.nc)
* Reynolds weekly mean (CAC); January 1990 to the present (sst.wkmean.1990-present.nc)
Precipitation:
* Jaeger; monthly mean precipitation on a 72x73 grid (jaeger.nc)
* Legates; monthly mean precipitation on a 720x361 grid (legates.nc)
* msu version 2; total monthly precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (msu_precip_2.nc)
* msu version 3; total monthly precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (msu_precip_3.nc)
* CMAP (xie & Arkin); monthly mean precipitation on a 2.5x2.5 degree grid (precip_cmap.nc)
Wind and wind stress fields:
* Hellerman and Rosenstein; monthly mean wind stress (hellerman.nc)
* NCEP; climatic monthly mean fields; based on 1976 to 1997 inclusive (winds_ncep_clim_76_97.nc)
* NCEP; monthly mean fields from 1976 to 1998 inclusive (winds_ncep_monthly.nc)
* ECMWF (Trenberth); monthly mean wind stress data (winds_trenberth.nc)
* Wyrtki; tropical Pacific winds and wind stresses (winds_wyrtki.nc)