Tropical eastern Pacific synthesis

Data sets (updated 2010 May)

• In-situ time series from Eastern Pacific Stratus cruises.
• Averages of Southeastern Pacific Stratus cruise time series in situ ship observations are aggregated at 10-minute and hourly intervals and in hourly diurnal composites for each year.
• Autumn cruises from years 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 are available singly or in one big file.
• Download NetCDF or tab-delimited ASCII text.
• Rawinsondes from Stratus cruises.
• Temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind velocity from GPS rawinsondes released every 3-8 hours (NetCDF).
  • Height profiles interpolated to 10 m
  • Pressure profiles interpolated to 1 hPa
• 20S summary image
• To retrieve by FTP:
• ftp ftp.etl.noaa.gov
• Log on as anonymous.
• Use email as password.
• cd /et6/cruises/STRATUS_synthesis

References

• de Szoeke, S. P., C. W. Fairall, D. E. Wolfe, L. Bariteau, P. Zuidema, 2010: Surface flux observations on the southeastern tropical Pacific Ocean and attribution of SST errors in coupled ocean-atmosphere models, Journal of Climate, in press.
• de Szoeke, S. P., 2009: Constraining the southeastern tropical Pacific heat budget with observations CLIVAR Variations.
• VOCALS Program Summary
• Garay, M. J., S. P. de Szoeke, and C. M. Moroney, 2008: Comparison of Cloud-top Heights Retrieved from ISCCP, MODIS, and MISR with Coincident Ship-based Measurements for the Marine Stratocumulus Region off the Western Coast of South America. J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., submitted.
• de Szoeke, S. P., C. W. Fairall, and Sergio Pezoa, 2008: Ship observations coasting South America in the tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, submitted.
• de Szoeke, S. P. and S.-P. Xie, 2008: The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: Assessment of errors and mechanisms in IPCC AR4 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. J. Climate, in press.
• de Szoeke, S. P., Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and T. Miyama, 2006: Effect of shallow cumulus convection on the eastern Pacific climate in a coupled model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17713, doi:10.1029/2006GL026715.
• Fairall, C. W., T. Uttal, D. Hazen, J. Hare, M. F. Cronin, N. Bond, D. E. Veron, 2008: Observations of Cloud, Radiation, and Surface Forcing in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific. J. Climate. 21, 4, 655-673.
• Fairall, C. and E. F. Bradley: A guide to making climate quality meteorological and flux measurements at sea. NOAA Technical Memorandum OAR PSD-311. Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado. October 2006.
• Kollias, P., C. W. Fairall, P. Zuidema, J. Tomlinson, and G. A. Wick, 2004: Observations of marine stratocumulus in SE Pacific during the PACS 2003 Cruise. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L22110, doi:10.1029/2004GL020751.
• Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S. P. de Szoeke, R. J. Small, K. J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji, 2007: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, 20, 1504-1522.
• Zuidema, P., E. Westwater, C. W. Fairall, and D. Hazen, 2005: Ship-based liquid water path estimates in marine stratocumulus. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D20206, doi:10.1029/2005JD005833.

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