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Online ISSN: 1520-0442
Print ISSN:    0894-8755
Frequency:    Semimonthly

Volume 21, Issue 19 (October 2008)
Hurrell, James W., James J. Hack, Dennis Shea, Julie M. Caron, James Rosinski, 2008: A New Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Boundary Dataset for the Community Atmosphere Model. J. Climate, 21, 5145–5153.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2008JCLI2292.1

A New Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Boundary Dataset for the Community Atmosphere Model

James W. Hurrell, James J. Hack, Dennis Shea, Julie M. Caron, and James Rosinski

National Center for Atmospheric Research, * Boulder, Colorado





Abstract

A new surface boundary forcing dataset for uncoupled simulations with the Community Atmosphere Model is described. It is a merged product based on the monthly mean Hadley Centre sea ice and SST dataset version 1 (HadISST1) and version 2 of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weekly optimum interpolation (OI) SST analysis. These two source datasets were also used to supply ocean surface information to the 40-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Re-Analysis (ERA-40). The merged product provides monthly mean sea surface temperature and sea ice concentration data from 1870 to the present: it is updated monthly, and it is freely available for community use. The merging procedure was designed to take full advantage of the higher-resolution SST information inherent in the NOAA OI.v2 analysis.

Keywords: Sea surface temperature, Sea ice, General circulation models, Surface fluxes

Received: October 18, 2007; Accepted: February 26, 2008

Corresponding author address: James W. Hurrell, Climate and Global Dynamics Division, National Center for Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307-3000. Email:

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