- About
- The Science
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Frontier 1: Anthropogenic Climate Change
- Frontier 2: Decadal variability, predictability and prediction
- Frontier 3: Intra-seasonal and seasonal predictability and prediction
- Imperative 1: Improved atmosphere and ocean component models of Earth System Models
- Imperative 2: Data synthesis, analysis, reanalysis and uncertainty
- Imperative 3: Ocean observing system
- Imperative 4: Capacity building
- CLIVAR Endorsed Projects & Activities
- CLIVAR Objectives
- CLIVAR Successes
- CLIVAR Frontiers and Imperatives
- Panels and Working Groups
- Global
- PAGES/CLIVAR Intersection Working Group
- CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI)
- Global Synthesis and Observations Panel (GSOP)
- WGCM/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)
- Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction
- Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM)
- Regional
- National Programmes
- Global
- Extremes Cross-Cut
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Surface Meteorology/Air-Sea Fluxes DAC
Surface Marine Meteorological Data Assembly Center, COAPS, FSU
Principal Contact: Shawn R. Smith
Email: smith@coaps.fsu.edu
Website: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/RVSMDC/CLIVAR/
Data: http://www.coaps.fsu.edu/RVSMDC/html/data.shtml
Responsibilities: The CLIVAR Surface Marine Meteorology Data Assembly Center (DAC) is established at the Center for Ocean-Atmospheric Prediction Studies on the campus of Florida State University. The mission of the DAC is to collect, quality control, distribute, and assure archival of underway surface meteorological observations from CLIVAR hydrographic cruises. Additional surface meteorology data will be accepted from CLIVAR-sponsored experiments in the marine environment. Data will be accepted from any U. S. or international hydrographic programs willing to provide their data to the DAC. We anticipate data submissions from research vessels and moored buoys that are either observed by nearly-continuous recording systems or ship bridge officers.
All surface meteorological data sent to the DAC will be placed in a common, metadata-inclusive format and will undergo automated and visual data quality assessment. Data quality evaluation procedures implemented for WOCE and TOGA-COARE will be utilized to produce the value-added data sets. Data quality reports and value added products will be distributed freely to the scientific community and feedback on data quality will be sent to data providers. Finally, the DAC will ensure the long-term archival of all submitted data at national archive centers.
