The present study employs the weekly - and monthly - averaged fluxes at 1 ° x 1 ° resolution available during the study period March 1992? (cersat.ifremer.fr)
Using an objective method, the multi-satellite wind vector, wind stress, latent and heat flux estimated over swaths are used to calculate weekly - and monthly averaged flux fields on 1 degree grid between 80 ° S and 80 ° N. (cersat.ifremer.fr)
Although it is a reasonable simplification to think of the transfer of thermal energy in a conduction - like model - where flux is related to the temperature gradient using a turbulent transfer coefficient - it is quite possible to have time - averaged flux moving in the opposite direction to time - averaged temperature gradient. (skepticalscience.com)