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Description

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.

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".

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.

Version Description

Not provided

Product Summary

Platforms
DMSP
Instruments
SSM/I
Spatial Extent

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

Geographic Region
GLOBAL OCEAN
Coordinate System
CARTESIAN
Granule Spatial Representation
CARTESIAN
Temporal Extent
1988-03-01 to 2008-11-30
Data Partner
Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (formerly Goddard DAAC), Terrestrial Information Systems Laboratory, Earth Sciences Division, Science and Exploration Directorate, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA (NASA/GSFC/SED/ESD/TISL/GESDI
Concept ID
C1237113469-GES_DISC
Data State
COMPLETE
Number of Files/Granules
4
Processing Level
4
Published
Updated
Science Keywords
Sea Level Pressure ,
Air Temperature ,
Skin Temperature ,
Surface Temperature ,
Evaporation ,
Humidity ,
Total Precipitable Water ,
Water Vapor ,
Surface Winds ,
Turbulence ,
Wind Stress ,
Atmospheric Heating ,
Heat Flux ,
Radiative Flux ,
Conduction ,
Evaporation ,
Heat Flux ,
Sea Level Pressure ,
Sea Surface Temperature ,
Surface Winds ,
Turbulence ,
Wind Stress

Citation

Citation is critically important for dataset documentation and discovery. This dataset is openly shared, without restriction, in accordance with the EOSDIS Data Use and Citation Guidance.

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Shie, C.-L., Hilburn, K., Chiu, L. S., Adler, R., Lin, I.-I., Nelkin, E., Ardizzone, J., & Gao, S. (2018). Goddard Satellite-Based Surface Turbulent Fluxes, 1x1 deg Seasonal Climatology, Set1 and NCEP V2c [Data set]. NASA Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center. https://doi.org/10.5067/MEASURES/GSSTF/DATA319 Date Accessed: 2025-12-14

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