OceanSITES NetCDF file

The OceanSITES format NetCDF files in this directory contain data from the JAMSTEC Kuroshio Extension Observatory (JKEO) moorings located at 38N,146.5E in the northern side of Kuroshio Extension current.

If you use JKEO1 data in publications or presentations, please acknowledge both of the RIGC/JAMSTEC and PMEL/NOAA. Also, we would appreciate receiving two copies of preprint and/or reprint of publications utilizing the data for inclusion in our bibliography.

If you use the data only later than JKEO2 in publications or presentations, please acknowledge only the RIGC/JAMSTEC. Also, we would appreciate receiving one copy of preprint and/or reprint of publications utilizing the data for inclusion in our bibliography.

Relevant publications should be sent to:

Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction Research Team,

Ocean Climate Change Research Program,

Research Institute for Global Change,

Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC)

2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka-city, Kanagawa, 237-0061, Japan

Contact: Dr. Hiroshi Ichikawa,

Phone:+81-46-867-9832,　　

Fax:+81-46-867-9835

Please note that this is a slack line mooring, and so the depths of subsurface sensors must be computed from the observed and calculated pressures, which are contained in the data file.

Last Updated on March 16, 2012

JKEO1 from February 2007 to March 2008

Daily-average data:

Please refer to the file JKEO_head.dat for detailed information about the data contained. All available variables are contained in one OceanSITES file.

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_TSVM_dy.nc (updated Feb. 2, 2008)

jkeo_dump.dat (updated Feb. 2, 2008)
jkeo_head.dat (updated Feb. 2, 2008)

High resolution data:

2-minute shortwave and long wave data.

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_SW_LW_2m.nc (updated Dec. 30 2008)

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_SW_LW_2m.head (updated Dec. 30 2008)

10-minute wind, air temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, water temperature and water pressure data.

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_TM_10m.nc (updated Dec. 30 2008)

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_TM_10m.head (updated Dec. 30 2008)

20-minute current velocity data.

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_V_20m.nc (updated Dec. 30 2008)

OS_JKEO38N146.5E_200702_V_20m.head (updated Dec. 30 2008)