MarineFlux

MarineFlux will establish a user-friendly web access point for the dissemination of turbulent air-sea fluxes and the essential ocean and climate variables (EOV/ECV) required to estimate the fluxes from surface in-situ platforms. The service will include fluxes derived from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set (ICOADS), the Shipboard Automated Meteorological and Oceanographic Systems (SAMOS) initiative and select flux datasets from NOAA expeditionary cruises. Working with the international flux community we will ensure the service provides not only the observations, but the metadata required to support discovery, search, access, and application for a wide range of users. The service will provide both a web user interface, for human search and discovery, and restful web services to support machine-to-machine queries.