Table 1. (a) Variables included in the groups of 2° (3-7) and 1° (3-7 plus 9) monthly summary statistics (available from NCAR). Derived variables closely related to heat and momentum fluxes are shown in boldface: wind pseudo-stresses (X, Y), and sensible-heat (E, I, J) and latent-heat (G, K, L, M, N) flux or transport parameters (Q_S is the saturation specific humidity at sea surface temperature). Note that transfer coefficients, etc. have not been applied to the pseudo-fluxes, e.g., UQ is simply the product of individual observations of U and Q. (b) The 8 (10) statistics included in the 2° (1°) groups. For 2° data, the full set of 19 variables × 14 statistics is also available (from NCAR) in an alternative (higher volume) format; the 14 statistics comprise all except "e" below, plus the additional sextiles (s0, s2, s4, s6). ERL's Climate Diagnostics Center also offers selected statistics in netCDF format, and both NCAR and NCDC distribute individual observations (see the COADS Web page at http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/coads/ for additional information).

* Groups 1-2 were for earlier Release 1 untrimmed data, and group 8 (containing, redundantly, S, A, X, Y) is available only for 1980-95 data.
** This is W³ (the identical quantity, using the same input data) represented at high- or low-resolution (i.e., data increments of 0.5 or 5 m³ s^-3). Due to format constraints, values of W³ exceeding 32,767 m³ s^-3 are available only in the low-resolution representation.
*** Not directly included in the 1° statistics, but defined as (s5 - s1)/2 and thus computable from the 1° statistics.