Variable:
Sea surface heat flux
Requirements defined for Sea surface heat flux (2)
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Requirements
Note: In reading the values, goal is marked blue,
breakthrough green, threshold orange
Application-dependent Technical Priority (ATP) Magenta and Relative priority of the attributes Red
| Id | Variable | Layer | App Area | ATP | Uncertainty | Layer/s Quality | Coverage Quality | Stability / decade | Hor Res | Ver Res | Obs Cyc | Timeliness | Coverage | Conf Level | Val Date | Source | General Comment | Application Area Comment | Horizontal Coverage Comment | Observation Comment | Performance Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 845 | Sea surface heat flux | Sea surface | 2.5 Atmospheric Climate Monitoring | 10 W/m2 15 W/m2 |
1 W/m2 2 W/m2 |
1 km 25 km |
60 min 30 d |
Global | reasonable | 2019-10-15 | GCOS-200: The Global Observing System for Climate: Implementation Needs (Published 2016) | Requirements in the GCOS-200 IP, Annex A, are only specified at the goal level. | |||||||||
| 1043 | Sea surface heat flux | Sea surface Bulk |
3.3 Oceanic Climate Monitoring and Services | 0.5 | 10 W/m2 15 W/m2 20 W/m2 0.5 |
1 W/m2 2 W/m2 3 W/m2 0.5 |
10 km 25 km 100 km 0.5 |
60 min 3 h 24 h 0.5 |
7 d 30 d 1 y 0.5 |
Global | reasonable | 2023-09-29 | GCOS-245: The 2022 ECVs Requirements (GCOS-245) | Surface heat flux is the rate of exchange of heat, per unit area, crossing the sea surface from ocean to atmosphere. The net heat flux is the sum of turbulent (latent and sensible) fluxes and the radiative (short wave and long wave) components. GCOS IP discerns between those components. |