Oceanography Links Page

Welcome to our Oceanography Links page.

We hope this newly formatted listing helps you more easily find the weather information you are looking for.

If you would like to recommend a site for inclusion, please let us know and we'll consider it.

If you find that a site doesn't work properly or that a link has become outdated, please let us know that as well. We'll update it promptly.

Until then, happy "surfing"!

Mike & Barbara (How the Weatherworks educators)

Icebergs
http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrc/iceberg.html
Latest information from the Antarctic Meteorological Research Center. Great polar orbiting satellite views of the B15 Iceberg which broke off the Ross Ice Shelf in March 2000 and the C16 iceberg. The B15berg was approximately 295 km long by 37 km wide (170 miles by 25 miles). Its 4,250 square-mile area was nearly as large as the state of Connecticut. The berg has since broken into two. Was this the largest berg ever? Find out here!

http://uwamrc.ssec.wisc.edu/amrc/amrcgallery.html
Historical imagery gallery, including images of the Ronne Iceberg (1999).

NOAA's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)
http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/
This site keys on the bathymetry, hydrology, temperatures, currents, and ice associated with the Great Lakes. Includes links to other Great Lakes sites.

NOAA/NESDIS - Weather and Oceanographic Satellite Program
http://www.goes.noaa.gov/
Real-time and retrospective GOES imagery for up to 21 days; also, some significant event imagery and imagery from other weather satellites around the world.

NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
If it addresses the earth-ocean-atmosphere system, the information may likely be here.Topics such as bathymetry, topography, geomagnetism, habitat, hazards, ocean geosciences, paleoclimate, satellites (not just weather-focused), snow and ice, solar, space weather, and terrestrial topics can be found here. Includes interactive sections (e.g., global bathymetry and topography), as well.

NOAA/PMEL Realtime TAO Buoy Data Display
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/realtime.html

NOAA/PMEL Sea Surface Temperature Images from Satellite
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/data_rescue/satellite/intro.html

NOS - Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS)
http://www.co-ops.nos.noaa.gov/data_res.html
Historical and real-time observations and predictions of water levels, coastal currents and other meteorological and oceanographic data. Includes the coast, bays, and tidal rivers.

NWS - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA EL NINO PAGE
http://www.nws.mbay.net/elnino.html

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Animation
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/~map/maproom/text/climate_pages/sst_olr/old_sst/sst_9798_anim.shtml
A two year animation shows the onset and demise of El Nino and the start of La Nina. It takes a few minutes to load, but once loaded, it can be replayed over and over again.

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/sport/sstAnimation/
Composite MODIS (polar satellite based) imagery is used to create an SST animation for the Gulf of Mexico and the southeast US Atlantic Coast. Gulf Stream is easy to see.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Real-Time
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/archive/
Global ocean SST data in an easy to view format. Select any of the latest 14 days shown. Data shown as year-day of year. Thus, 01120 is year 2001 and day is 120th day of the year.

Tide Information
http://www.harbortides.com/Default.asp
You have to register to use the tide table search, but it's free!!! A very easy to use site with times and heights of high and low tides, sunrise and sunset data, and dates of lunar phases.

This page was updated on April 27, 2006.

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