Upper Ocean Mooring Data Repository - TOGA COARE: Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Ocean Atmosphere Response Experiment
Meteorology

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Overview

Location: Equatorial Pacific, at 1° 45.36´N, 155° 59.7´E
Duration: 4.5 months, from October 21, 1992 to March 4, 1993.
Sample Rate: 7.5 minutes
Variables:

Air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, sea temperature, east and north wind speeds, wind speed, wind direction, incoming shortwave (solar) and longwave radiation, precipitation rate.

Instrumentation: See the table of instruments and the glossary of instrument types.
Processing Notes: are available in a plain text file.

Download Meteorological Data

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metadata	EPIC (NetCDF)	compressed ASCII	ASCII
coaremet.meta	coaremet.epic	coaremet.asc.gz	coaremet.asc

Also available: Heat fluxes (EPIC)

Last updated: May 17, 2008