Ocean Surface Currents - Basin Maps
Ocean Surface Currents
Basin Maps
Maps: Topography/Bathymetry, Historical Ship Drift, Satellite-Derived Currents (OSCAR), and Drifting Buoy maps.

Maps are plotted in a Mercator projection and the (sub-)polar regions are not to scale and are expanded in longitude.
Clicking on a thumbnail image loads a larger image, clicking on the figure caption loads that basins map page.

Topography/Bathymetry: - 2 Tone with labels

Atlantic

Indian

Pacific

Topography/Bathymetry: - Color without labels

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Indian

Pacific

Historical: Ship Drift Data - Yearly MGSVA plots.

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Indian

Pacific

Historical: Ship Drift Data - Seasonal MGSVA slideshow.

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Indian

Pacific

OSCAR - Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real time.

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Indian

Pacific
Thanks to Gary Lagerloef, Fabrice Bonjean (ESR).
These data are updated about every week, as a running monthly average.

Drifting Buoy Data: - Spaghetti Plots - b/w of buoy tracectories.

Atlantic

Indian

Pacific

Drifting Buoy Data: - Speed - as above only color denotes drifter speed.

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Indian

Pacific

Drifting Buoy Data: - Heading - as above only color denotes drifter heading.

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Pacific