Seasonal, Monthly, and Annual Reports of Ocean Weather Stations: Anomaly TimeSeries of Surface Heat Budget Parameters

摘要

The seasonal, monthly, and annual mean anomaly time series of heat exchangeparameters of the Ocean Weather Station (OWS) observations in the North Atlantic and North Pacific are presented. These time series are based on monthly summaries for the period of 1946-1974. The anomalies of the recorded measurements are examined as well as the inferred air-sea heat exchange anomalies. The method used in computing the ocean surface heat budget is included. Except for the sea surface temperature, air temperature and sea level pressure, the OWS marine reports appear to be the only observations of the world oceans sufficiently accurate to correctly capture long-period trends or interannual variabilities.