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Data Availability

Data Availability

A. SST data

See ftp://gmaoftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/tyamada/sst/

Note: five sets of SST data are available:

  1. glace2_sst_pentad:               absolute values of SST (K), pentads
  2. glace2_sst_daily:                   absolute values of SST (K), daily
  3. glace2_anom_sst_pentad:  SST anomalies, pentads
  4. glace2_anom_sst_daily:      SST anomalies, daily
  5. 6mon:                                        6 months worth of data (for special projects

B. Land-sea mask

Also on ftp://gmaoftp.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/tyamada/sst

C. GSWP forcing. See the following sites:

http://www.iges.org/gswp/  (Main GSWP-2 website)
http://www.iges.org/gswp/input.html  (Forcing data info)
http://www.iges.org/gswp/dods.htm

D. GSWP-2 multi-model analysis (Soil moisture data averaged across models).

http://www.iges.org/gswp/dvd/index.html

E. 50-year Princeton forcing dataset

Access via the following link: http://hydrology.princeton.edu/data.pgf.php

Website Contact:  Randal Koster, NASA GMAO
Last Modified: 2008-10-8