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at_qflag: in data-sparse regions the quantity of data may not be sufficient to correctly derive an uncertainty
estimate. The uncertainty contributes to the observed standard deviation and we therefore use the criteria that
the standard deviation should be greater than the uncertainty estimate (qflag = 1). In monthly mean
gridboxes where the uncertainty is larger than the standard deviation qflag is set to zero, indicating that the
mean value, uncertainty estimates and variability estimate should all be treated with caution.
Note that the estimates of uncertainty are only those due to errors in the observations. For flux variables the
uncertainty due to the bulk formulae used to calculate the fluxes have not been included in the uncertainty
estimate.
Ice flag and land mask.
Sea ice concentration values from Reynolds et al. (2002) are used in the construction of the dataset. A daily
analysis value is only calculated when sea ice concentration is less than 25%. The icemask variable gives the
fraction of the month for which the grid-box was ice free. When no sea ice was present at greater than 25%
during the month, icemask will equal 1, a value of zero denotes sea ice cover at 25% or greater for the whole
month. Absent values of icemask denote land or land-ice based on the etopo5 dataset (Data Announcement
88-MGG-02, Digital relief of the Surface of the Earth. NOAA, National Geophysical Data Center, Boulder,
Colorado, 1988.).
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