Here is the latest re SEAFLUX (see http://paos.colorado.edu/~curryja/ocean/). Please send any updates, info, data sets, whatever so we can keep the project moving along. Thanks for your input.

On Wed Nov 14, I need to make a presentation on SEAFLUX to the GEWEX Radiation Panel Meeting. I would appreciate an update on the various intercomparison projects from the project leaders. If any of you have some intercomparison results related to the SEAFLUX project, I would appreciate it if you could send a figure or two for my presentation. Thanks in advance for your contributions.

BAMS has approved the proposal for an article, here is the title and abstract I submitted:

High resolutions surface fluxes over the global ocean are needed to evaluate coupled atmosphere-ocean models and weather forecasting models, provide surface forcing for ocean models, understand the regional and time variations of the exchange of heat between the atmosphere and ocean, and to provide a large-scale context for field experiments. The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Experiment (GEWEX) Radiation Panel has initiated the the SEAFLUX Project to investigate producing a high-resolution satellite data set of of surface turbulent fluxes over the global oceans. The goal of SEAFLUX is to produce a high-resolution satellite-derived product of the surface turbulent fluxes over the global ocean. An overview is given in this paper of the methodology being used by SEAFLUX, including the SEAFLUX intercomparison project. The SEAFLUX project, has the following elements:

• extensive library of in situ data sets from research ships and buoys for validation of the global flux products
• development and evaluation of a new skin sea surface temperature product that resolves the diurnal cycle
• evaluation and improvement of bulk turbulent flux models
• evaluation and improvement of methods to determine surface air temperature and humidity from satellite
• production and evaluation of global high-resolution satellite-derived surface turbulent fluxes for 1999
• evaluation of the global flux products in the context of applications (e.g. forcing ocean models, partitioning of heat transport in the atmosphere and ocean)

An overview is given here of the rationale for SEAFLUX, tthe intercomparison project, and plans for the future.

I have started writing some text. I have realized that the main challenge to this paper is figuring out who coauthors should be. My thinking is to include as coauthors anyone who provides figures or text to the paper, or has provided a data set (satellite or in situ) or flux algorithm to SEAFLUX. If you want to contribute to this paper, let me know, i expect to have a draft extended outline to circulate in a few weeks. The other challenge is to provide some results and make an interesting paper, but not steal thunder from individual publications.

Laurence Eymard has provided in situ data for CATCH, FETCH, and SEMAPHORE, these data are now posted on the web page.

On the SST projects page, http://paos.colorado.edu/~curryja/ocean/isstemp.html, Sandra Castro has provided calculations of skin SST from the ETL deployments using the floating thermister.

If you have "promised" some data to SEAFLUX but have not yet provided it, now would be a good time to provide it to us :)

Sue Chou's latest flux products are posted at http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov:82/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/hydrology/hd_gsstf2.0.html

Joerg Schulz has updated his web site with some very nice global flux plots http://www.mpimet.mpg.de/Depts/Physik/HOAPS/