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Welcome to OAFlux

The OAFlux project aims to provide high-quality climate data records of air-sea heat, freshwater, and momentum fluxes for use in studies of the global energy budget, water cycle, atmosphere and ocean circulation, climate change and variability. We utilize the state-of-art approaches including machine learning tools to derive insights from satellite and in situ observations in developing the best strategy for air-sea flux estimation. 

FLUX PRODUCTS

OAFlux 1°-gridded analysis of 60+ years (1958 onward)

SPONSORED BY NOAA GOMO   

Analyzed air-sea fluxes:

  • Latent heat flux
  • Sensible heat flux
  • Moisture flux (ocean evaporation)

Analyzed air-sea variables:

  • Sea surface temperature (SST)
  • 2m air temperature
  • 2m air specific humidity
  • 10m equivalent neutral wind speed

OAFLUX 0.25°-GRIDDED SATELLITE ANALYSIS (1988 ONWARD)

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Analyzed air-sea fluxes:

  • Latent heat flux
  • Sensible heat flux
  • Moisture flux (ocean evaporation)
  • Momentum flux (wind stress)
  • Zonal and meridional wind stress components

Analyzed air-sea variables:

  • Sea surface temperature (SST)
  • 2m air temperature
  • 2m air specific humidity
  • 10m equivalent neutral wind speed
  • Zonal and meridional 10m neutral wind components
  • Wind stress curl
  • Wind convergence
  • Wind vorticity
  • Ekman velocities

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS