Grid points over land or non-analyzed data locations are indicated by special value (99999.0).
The data are available in netCDF format (highly recommended). There is one file (ndn6089_flux.nc, 7.6 mb) for wind stress and turbulent heat fluxes, and the other file (ndn6089_met.nc, 11.4 mb) contains the standard meteorological variables. Since netCDF files are fairly well self-describing and transportable across several supported platforms, all support information on reading the data, units, etc are all contained within the files.
Information on netCDF data formatting can be found by contacting the Unidata Program at NCAR/UCAR (see the README_netCDF file in this directory), e.g. http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/
Available in this directory are FORTRAN programs to read the netCDF files (these still require the netCDF libraries!), read6089flux.f and read6089met.f
Last Modified: Wed, 25 Mar 1998