Tropical Eastern Pacific Synthesis
For assistance or additional information, please contact Simon de Szoeke
Data Sets (updated 2008 July 31)
- In-situ time series from Eastern Pacific Stratus cruises.
- Averages of Southeastern Pacific Stratus cruise time series in situ ship observations are aggregated at 10-minute and hourly intervals and in hourly diurnal composites for each year.
- Autumn cruises from years 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 are available singly or in one big file.
- Download NetCDF or tab-delimited ASCII text.
- Rawinsondes from Stratus Cruises.
- Temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind velocity from GPS rawinsondes released every 3-8 hours (NetCDF).
- Height profiles interpolated to 10 m
- Pressure profiles interpolated to 1 hPa
- 20S Summary Image
- Temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind velocity from GPS rawinsondes released every 3-8 hours (NetCDF).
- To Retrieve by FTP:
- ftp ftp.etl.noaa.gov
- Log on as anonymous.
- Use email as password.
- cd /et6/cruises/STRATUS_synthesis
References
- VOCALS Program Summary
- Garay, M. J., S. P. de Szoeke, and C. M. Moroney, 2008: Comparison of Cloud-top Heights Retrieved from ISCCP, MODIS, and MISR with Coincident Ship-based Measurements for the Marine Stratocumulus Region off the Western Coast of South America. J. Geophys. Res.-Atm., submitted.
- de Szoeke, S. P., C. W. Fairall, and Sergio Pezoa, 2008: Ship observations coasting South America in the tropical Pacific Ocean. J. Climate, submitted.
- de Szoeke, S. P. and S.-P. Xie, 2008: The tropical eastern Pacific seasonal cycle: Assessment of errors and mechanisms in IPCC AR4 coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation models. J. Climate, in press.
- de Szoeke, S. P., Y. Wang, S.-P. Xie, and T. Miyama, 2006: Effect of shallow cumulus convection on the eastern Pacific climate in a coupled model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L17713, doi:10.1029/2006GL026715.
- Fairall, C. W., T. Uttal, D. Hazen, J. Hare, M. F. Cronin, N. Bond, D. E. Veron, 2008: Observations of Cloud, Radiation, and Surface Forcing in the Equatorial Eastern Pacific. J. Climate. 21, 4, 655-673.
- Fairall, C. and E. F. Bradley: A guide to making climate quality meteorological and flux measurements at sea. NOAA Technical Memorandum OAR PSD-311. Earth System Research Laboratory, Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, Colorado. October 2006.
- Kollias, P., C. W. Fairall, P. Zuidema, J. Tomlinson, and G. A. Wick, 2004: Observations of marine stratocumulus in SE Pacific during the PACS 2003 Cruise. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L22110, doi:10.1029/2004GL020751.
- Xie, S.-P., T. Miyama, Y. Wang, H. Xu, S. P. de Szoeke, R. J. Small, K. J. Richards, T. Mochizuki, and T. Awaji, 2007: A regional ocean-atmosphere model for eastern Pacific climate: Towards reducing tropical biases. J. Climate, 20, 1504-1522.
- Zuidema, P., E. Westwater, C. W. Fairall, and D. Hazen, 2005: Ship-based liquid water path estimates in marine stratocumulus. J. Geophys. Res., 110, D20206, doi:10.1029/2005JD005833.
Presentations
| Stratus Buoy (Powerpoint, 2.2 MB) |
| ESRL Stratus 5-Cruise Summary (Powerpoint, 3.3 MB) |