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Surface Fluxes from Saildrones


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Surface Fluxes from Saildrones

10-minute latent and sensible air-sea heat fluxes and surface wind stress derived from observations taken by 13 saildrones in the summers of 2017-19 are available below. Their tracks are shown in the figures.
Saildrone tracks
ID Time Download
sd-1001 July 17 00:00:00Z - September 29 20:30:00Z, 2017 NetCDF CSV
sd-1002 July 17 00:00:00Z - September 29 20:30:00Z, 2017 NetCDF CSV
sd-1003 July 17 00:00:00Z - September 29 20:30:00Z, 2017 NetCDF CSV
sd-1020 July 1 06:10:00Z - October 6 23:50:00Z, 2018 NetCDF CSV
sd-1021 July 1 06:10:00Z - October 5 19:50:00Z, 2018 NetCDF CSV
sd-1022 July 1 06:10:00Z - October 5 19:50:00Z, 2018 NetCDF CSV
sd-1023 July 1 06:10:00Z - October 5 19:50:00Z, 2018 NetCDF CSV
sd-1033 May 14 16:10:00Z - October 12 1:50:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV
sd-1034 May 14 14:10:00Z - October 11 17:50:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV
sd-1035 May 14 22:10:00Z - September 10 20:20:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV
sd-1036 May 14 22:10:00Z - October 11 17:50:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV
sd-1037 May 15 22:10:00Z - October 11 17:50:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV
sd-1041 May 16 00:05:00Z - August 11 17:10:00Z, 2019 NetCDF CSV