ESSO - Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services

Changes

Following information are provided to emphasise modification that may may have impacts on tools using TropFlux products.

version 1 (v1)

20140124

Data updated until December 2013.
TropFlux webpage migrated from http://www.locean-ipsl.upmc.fr/~tropflux/html/ to http://www.incois.gov.in/tropflux/
Single netcdf file for each variable is now split year-wise files.

20130725

Data updated until March 2013

20121227

Data updated until July 2012

20120209

We have now released a version 1 of the TropFLux product. In comparison with the version 0 (described in Praveen Kumar et al. 2012), this new version has the following differences:

• the availability of ERA-I data over the full 1979 to september 2011 period allowed us to provide v1 for this period (v0 was for 1989-2010)
• v1 now includes estimates for wind stresses, which are described and evaluated in Praveen Kumar et al. 2013)
• the retrieval method for radiative fluxes has slightly changed (0-24 hour averages whereas the previous version was based on 24-48h averages from the previous day forecast). This has a very minor impact on the validation statistics and all the validations presented in Praveen Kumar et al. 2012 are almost unchanged.
• the value for land points in v0 was causing problem when opening the file under ferret. v1 seems to solve this problem.

version 0 (v0)

20110817

• correction of ws_tropflux_1m_1989_2010.nc and ws_tropflux_1d_1989_2010.nc due to unappropriated unit conversion

20110707

• reprocessing from 1989 to 2010
• new terminology var_tropflux_1d_yyyy_yyyy.nc
• new location of daily files daily/
• only one field/file
• add monthly time scale in monthly
• instead of K for temperature units