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Modeling & Modeling Output |  Kids (K-12) |  Popular Accounts |  Satellite Data & Images |  Drifting Buoys |  Current Meters (Moored Buoys) |  Other Data |  Lecture Notes |  More Interesting Links |  Weather Links

Modeling & Modeling Output

• Ocean Modeling in MPO (UM/RSMAS)
  • Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Modeling (MICOM)
  • Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)
  • HYCOM Consortium for Data Assimilative Ocean Modeling (NOPP funded)
• Naval Research Laboratory Real-time Global Ocean Modeling (NRL)
• North Atlantic Ocean Current Velocity (Animation of ocean currents in the Atlantic) (NASA/GSFC)

Kids (K-12)

• Go with the flow! (SEACOOS)
• Ocean Motion and Surface Currents (NASA)
• The Evergreen Project (MGBnet)
  • Marine Ecosystems - Shorelines, Temperate Oceans, Tropical Oceans
• Victor the Vector (OCEAN98)
• Ocean Links for Kids (NSF)
• Athena Earth and Space Science for K-12
• ONR Science & Technology Focus: Oceanography (ONR)
• Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command
  • Zeus' Web: Clarifying the Myths of Meteorology (Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command)
  • Neptune's Web: An Oceanographic Voyage in Learning (Info for students and teachers from the Public Affairs Office of CNMOC) (Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command)
  • Weather Talk (Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command)
  • Ocean Talk (Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command)
• Sea Education K12 Lesson Plan Woods Hole
• Ocean Planet - A Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition. (NASA/GSFC)
  • Resource Room (lots of links)
    • Ocean Currents
    • Staying on Top, These shoes just did it.
    • Tracking Ocean Currents
    • Forecast: moderate coastal climates, variable temperatures inland.
• Ask Jeeves Answer: Currents: (Ocean Circulation primer)
• JASON: Delivering Real Adventures in Science and Measurable Gains in Achievement!

Popular Accounts

• Oceana | Protecting the World's Ocean
  • Light and Sound
  • Tectonics and the Ocean Floor
  • Ocean Winds
  • Ocean Waves
• The Remarkable Ocean World: Whirlpools in Your Bathtub (OceansOnLine)
• Wind-Driven Ocean Currents: Of Shoes And Ships And Rubber Ducks And A Message In A Bottle (wind drift, popular article).
• Atlantic Ocean (Geological History of Atlantic Ocean)
• Ocean Highways by Thor Heyerdahl
• Charting Neptune's Realm: The Enigma of Currents (sailing history)
• European Voyages of Exploration
• Latitude: The Art and Science of Fifteenth-Century Navigation

Satellite Data & Images

• OSCAR - Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real time (NOAA)
• Sea Surface Temperature Satellite Image Archive (University of Rhode Island/Graduate School of Oceanography)
• Pathfinder SST (NASA/JPL)
  • AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder: Related Links (A thorough listing of satellite and in-situ data links)
• SeaWiFS Project (NASA/GSFC)
• 6: Show and Tell SeaWiFS (Satellite images of ocean and atmospheric phenomena) (NASA/GSFC)
• OSS Spiral Eddies Oceanography from the Space Shuttle (pictures of ocean eddies from space) (NASA/GSFC)
• Ocean Color Home Page (NASA/GSFC)
• Satellite Derived Surface Currents from Earth and Space Research (ESR)
• NOAA CoastWatch Home Page (NOAA)

Drifting Buoys

• Ship Drift Model (NASA)
• NOAA/AOML Drifter Group (NOAA/AOML)
  • The Drifting Buoy Data Assembly Center
  • The Global Drifter Center
• Project NOPP Drifters (NOPP)
  • Currents - Their Causes and Effects by George Linzee (Ocean current home experiment)
• Globec: Satellite-tracked Drifters (Description of Satellite-tracked drifters w/ pictures)
• Buoy QC Tools (SHOM)

Current Meters (Moored Buoys)

• Globec: Current Meters (Picture of current meter mooring) (Gulf of Maine Research Institute)

Other Data

• National Data Buoy Center (Real-time buoy data) (NOAA/NDBC)
• Ocean Current Data (NOAA/NODC)
• Climatological Database for the World's Oceans (CLIWOC) (National Maritime Museum (UK))
• SouthEast Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Systems (SEACOOS)

Lecture Notes

• Ocean Currents and Climate (Ocean Circulation) (USC/Dept of Earth Sciences)
• Meto 670 Physical Oceanography (Historical review of ocean circulation) (Uni. of Maryland/Dept of Meteorology)
• Lecture 9 & 10 - Ocean Circulation (Class notes on ocean circulation) (Uni. of East Anglia)
• Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation (lessons on ocean currents and ocean circulation) (SFSU)
• Introduction to General Oceanography (Uni. of Haifa, Department Of Maritime Civilizations)
  • Air-Sea Interactions I
  • Air-Sea Interactions II
  • Ocean Circulation I
  • Ocean Circulation II
• Ocean590 (Uni. of Washington/School of Oceanography)
  • Turbulence and Diffusion: Mesoscale Eddies (Turbulence and Ocean Eddies)
• Oceanography - currents (Seafriends)

More Interesting Links

• BREEF - Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation promoting a sustainable relationship between Bahamians, visitors and our Marine Environment
• Currents of the Atlantic Ocean from the USN Warfighter Response Center (US Navy)
• Woman in Marine Sciences (Careers)
• Careers in Oceanography (Careers) (Palomar College)
• Lagrangian Analysis and Prediction of Coastal and Ocean Dynamics (LAPCOD) (UM/RSMAS)
• El Nino Theme Page distributed information on El Nino (NOAA/PMEL)
• Surface currents in the northern North Atlantic (cartoon of N. Atlantic currents)
• Chapter 32, Ocean Currents (chapter on ocean currents)
• BIO Ocean Sciences (Current data, mostly off of NE Canada)
• AVISO/Altimetry - Applications: Lively Currents (Global map of SSH variability)
• Oceans (Glacier, Rice University)
• UHSLC links (links to ocean sea level sites)
• PSIgate Physical Sciences Information Gateway
  • Earth Sciences Gateway at PSIgate
  • OceanCurrents.rsmas.miami.edu at PSIgate
• Library & Resources - from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• Glossary of Physical Oceanography and Related Disciplines
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (Denmark)
• Geovetarcentrum Earth Sciences Centre (Goteborgs Universitet)

Translations of some of our pages.

• Atlantic Surface Currents
  • A Haitian translation of the The East Iceland Current main text page.

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Dead Links - please help me find them again !

• Ocgy 308 - Chapter 14: Ocean Currents
• The Gulf Stream: A Global Investigation, Cross Curriculum Study of the Gulf Stream via the Internet
• A Primer on Ocean Circulation: Measurements and Lingo of Physical Oceanographers (WHOI)
• Lectures 13 & 14, Ocean Circulation
• Climates and Weather Explained: the web site (NASA/GSFC)
• 15 Observed Circulation North Atlantic Circulation (chapter on N. Atlantic currents) Texas A&M
• Oceans & Coastal Processes (Ocean Circulation)
• An overview of ocean currents with emphasis on currents on the Norwegian continental shelf by Gerhard Ersdal
• Welcome to a view of "the ocean in motion" from NOAA's Geostationary Satellites (SST video animations of many ocean currents)