This page describes and gives options for manipulating the OBERHUBER dataset. We start with the options for manipulating, because once you are comfortable with the system, they are the most useful.

Dataset Options

OBERHUBER options	Help	Expert Mode
	Data Selection	Data Files	Tables

Help/Terse: switches back and forth between this relatively descriptive page that contains extended explanations, and the page that just has the information.
Expert Mode: switches into a mode that lets you access several datasets at the same time, and enter data-manipulating commands directly as text rather than clicking on a series of pages.
When in Expert Mode there is a list of active datasets at the top of the page, followed by a text window containing the command equivalent of the current page. These commands can be edited or extended.
Views: (the icons that show different views) go to an interactive data viewer that let you view the data with a variety of plot types (including colors and contours), zoom in and out, and select different slices and different variables. You can also save the view in a variety of formats, including as a clickable link in your own html document, as well as extract the data in the view as a table or datafile.
Data Selection: lets you pick out a subset of the full dataset. You should try the interactive data viewer first.
Data Files: lets you download the dataset in your choice of format.
Tables: lets you view the data as a table. A number of formatting options are available.

Note that there will be many more options once you have picked a particular variable, because the server is currently more adept at manipulating single variables than it is at manipulating datasets (e.g. collections of variables).

Dataset Description

We start with a quick reminder of where you are in the collection of datasets.

SOURCES OBERHUBER^*

As you go from left to right, the datasets listed get more and more specific, ending with the current dataset, OBERHUBER. Datasets with documentation are marked (*): the * links to the documentation directly.

OBERHUBER

OBERHUBER: Max Planck Institute heat flux and surface radiation climatology over global oceans.

Documents

give additional information about the current dataset.

outline: shows all the different parts of this dataset (the parts are datasets and variables, see below).
dataset documentation

Datasets and variables

Variables (also called data or dependent variables) are sets of numbers, along with the grids (independent variables) that place those numbers in space and time, and the additional information (such as units) that render the data meaningful. Datasets are collections of variables and datasets. This will become clearer once you look at the outline.

buoyancy flux OBERHUBER buoy[ X Y | T]

transfer coefficient for latent heat OBERHUBER ce[ X Y | T]

cloud cover OBERHUBER cld[ X Y | T]

newtonian cooling rate OBERHUBER dqdt[ X Y | T]

net downward heat flux OBERHUBER hfx[ X Y | T]

latent heat flux OBERHUBER lhfx[ X Y | T]

outgoing longwave radiation OBERHUBER lwfx[ X Y | T]

net freshwater flux OBERHUBER pme[ X Y | T]

precipitation OBERHUBER precipitation[ X Y | T]

net radiation OBERHUBER rfx[ X Y | T]

relative humidity OBERHUBER rhum[ X Y | T]

sensible heat flux OBERHUBER shfx[ X Y | T]

sea level pressure OBERHUBER slp[ X Y | T]

solar radiation OBERHUBER solr[ X Y | T]

mixed layer temperature OBERHUBER sst[ X Y | T]

air temperature OBERHUBER tair[ X Y | T]

zonal wind stress OBERHUBER taux[ X Y | T]

meridional wind stress OBERHUBER tauy[ X Y | T]

zonal wind speed OBERHUBER u[ X Y | T]

wind speed OBERHUBER umag[ X Y | T]

frictional velocity OBERHUBER ustar[ X Y | T]

meridional wind speed OBERHUBER v[ X Y | T]

r.m.s. wind speed OBERHUBER wssi[ X Y | T]

Grids

Grids are the independent variables contained in this dataset.

Time	grid: /T (months since 01-Jan) periodic (Jan) to (Dec) by 1.0 N= 12 pts :grid
Longitude	grid: /X (degree_east) periodic (1E) to (1W) by 2.0 N= 180 pts :grid
Latitude	grid: /Y (degree_north) ordered (89S) to (89N) by 2.0 N= 90 pts :grid

Other Info

iridl:hasSemantics: iridl:MPI_Met

References

J. M. Oberhuber. An Atlas Based on `COADS' Data Set, number 15, 1988

buoyancy flux	OBERHUBER buoy[ X Y \| T]
transfer coefficient for latent heat	OBERHUBER ce[ X Y \| T]
cloud cover	OBERHUBER cld[ X Y \| T]
newtonian cooling rate	OBERHUBER dqdt[ X Y \| T]
net downward heat flux	OBERHUBER hfx[ X Y \| T]
latent heat flux	OBERHUBER lhfx[ X Y \| T]
outgoing longwave radiation	OBERHUBER lwfx[ X Y \| T]
net freshwater flux	OBERHUBER pme[ X Y \| T]
precipitation	OBERHUBER precipitation[ X Y \| T]
net radiation	OBERHUBER rfx[ X Y \| T]
relative humidity	OBERHUBER rhum[ X Y \| T]
sensible heat flux	OBERHUBER shfx[ X Y \| T]
sea level pressure	OBERHUBER slp[ X Y \| T]
solar radiation	OBERHUBER solr[ X Y \| T]
mixed layer temperature	OBERHUBER sst[ X Y \| T]
air temperature	OBERHUBER tair[ X Y \| T]
zonal wind stress	OBERHUBER taux[ X Y \| T]
meridional wind stress	OBERHUBER tauy[ X Y \| T]
zonal wind speed	OBERHUBER u[ X Y \| T]
wind speed	OBERHUBER umag[ X Y \| T]
frictional velocity	OBERHUBER ustar[ X Y \| T]
meridional wind speed	OBERHUBER v[ X Y \| T]
r.m.s. wind speed	OBERHUBER wssi[ X Y \| T]