Interface to an Atmosphere--Ocean interaction database at UW

The basic method to extract data is to highlight the items and options you want to retrieve by clicking on them and then submit the request.

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Experiment name(s) to search:
Type of data: Daily OR Hourly
Flag disposition: Fetch flags OR Ignore flags
Database Variables:

Fasinex (Endeavour, Oceanus)
Hexmax
Jasin (Endurer, Meteor)
Mildex (FLIP)
Mizex East (Polar Queen, Håkon Mosby)
Ocean Storms
Sofia
Strex (Vancouver, Oceanographer)
Swade
Tropic Heat-II

acomment -- Non-blank characters indicate entire line is a comment
binnumber -- An integer counter of data values (used for sorting)
experimentname -- Experiment name
binlen -- Length of average in hours
lat -- Latitude in decimal degrees
lon -- Longitude in decimal degrees
date -- The time given in YY/MM/DD.hh:mm:ss format
utc -- Universal time in decimal day of the year.
local -- Local time in decimal day of the year.
swina -- Shortwave irradiance at the surface (W/m^2).
swinb -- Shortwave irrad. from a secondary radiometer (W/m^2).
swrin -- Shortwave irrad. from a red pyranometer (W/m^2).
lwin -- Longwave irradiance at the surface in W/m^2.
swouta -- Shortwave exitance (W/m^2).
swoutb -- Shortwave exitance from a secondary radiometer (W/m^2).
lwout -- Longwave exitance at the surface (W/m^2).
net -- Net radiative flux (W/m^2).
swcorr -- Correction to the shortwave flux (W/m^2).
lwcorr -- Correction to the longwave flux (W/m^2).
vblwin -- Body voltage of the lwin radiometer.
vdlwin -- Dome voltage of lwin radiometer.
tplwin -- Thermopile voltage of the lwin radiometer.
shflux -- Sensible heat flux.
lhflux -- Latent heat flux.
stress -- Wind stress (N/m^2).
swtop -- Top of the atmosphere shortwave irrad. (W/m^2).
swcs -- Clear-sky shortwave irradiance (W/m^2).
trans -- Shortwave transmittance swin/swtop.
alb -- Albedo (in tenths).
solarelev -- Solar elevation angle (degrees).
pres -- Sea level pressure (mb).
taira -- Air temperature at the sea surface (C).
tairb -- Backup air temperature (C).
twet -- Wet bulb temperature (C).
tdew -- Dewpoint temperature (C).
tseaa -- Sea surface temperature (C).
tseab -- Backup sea-surface temperature (C).
speed -- Wind speed (m s-1).
dir -- Wind direction (degrees).
uwind -- Zonal wind (m s-1).
vwind -- Meridional wind speed (m/s).
qy -- Specific humidity (g/m^3).
rhum -- Relative humidity (%).
weather -- Weather (NWS code).
cctot -- Total cloud cover (in tenths).
cclowmid -- Cloud cover due to low and middle clouds (in tenths).
cbaseht -- Height of lowest cloudbase (NWS code).
ctlow -- Low cloud type (NWS code).
ctmiddle -- Middle cloud type (NWS code).
cthigh -- High cloud type (NWS code).
sigcclow -- Cloud cover (lowest signif.) cloud group (in tenths).
sigctlow -- Cloud type (lowest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
sigchlow -- Cloud base height (lowest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
sigccmid -- Cloud cover (next highest signif.) cloud group (in tenths).
sigctmid -- Cloud type (next highest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
sigchmid -- Cloud base height (next highest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
sigcchigh -- Cloud cover (highest signif.) cloud group (in tenths).
sigcthigh -- Cloud type (highest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
sigchhigh -- Cloud base (highest signif.) cloud group (NWS code).
tideht -- Tide height (meters above mean sea-level).
swhoughton -- H.G. Houghton (1954) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
swkimball -- H.H. Kimball (1928) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
swlaevastu -- T. Laevastu (1967) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
swreed -- R.K. Reed (1977) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
swtabata -- S. Tabata (1964) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
swwyrtki -- K. Wyrtki (1965) sw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwanderson -- E.R. Anderson (1952) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwberliand -- M.E. Berliand (Budyko, 1956) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwbrunt -- D. Brunt (1932) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwbunker -- A.F. Bunker (1976) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwclark -- N.E. Clark et al (1974) lw irrad. parametrization (W/m^2).
lwefimova -- N.A. Efimova (Kondratyev, 1969) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwhasten -- Hastenrath and Lamb (1978) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
lwswinbank -- W.C. Swinbank (1963) lw irrad. param. (W/m^2).
unused -- An unused field
unusedd -- A second unused field

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