Oregon State University/Climatic Research Institute's Global Monthly Ocean Heat Flux and Wind Stress

These monthly climatologies were compiled by Esbensen and Kushnir (heat budget) and by Han and Lee (stress) in 1981, and are archived at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Global ocean radiation and heat budget data are prepared on a 4 X 5 degree latitude/longitude grid and are described in Oregon State University (OSU) Climate Research Institute (CRI) Report 29. Files of wind stress over the oceans are prepared on a 5 X 5 degree latitude/longitude grid and are described in OSU CRI Report 26. The data include surface wind speed, sea level pressure, sea surface temperature (SST), sea/air temperature difference, air temperature, specific humidity, sea/air specific humidity difference, cloudiness, available solar radiation, net upward longwave radiation, net downward radiative flux, latent heat flux, sensible heat flux, and net downward heat flux. Information about obtaining this dataset is available via World Wide Web from the NCAR Home Page. Link to: https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds209.0/ Additional information regarding NCAR's research data collection is available on-line. Link to: https://rda.ucar.edu/ The data is also available from the LDEO/IRI Data Climate Library at: http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.OSUSFC/