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Ocean Current Website
A.J. Mariano, E.H. Ryan, B. Bischof
U. of Miami
amariano@rsmas.miami.edu(Abstract received 01/10/2005 for session A)
ABSTRACT
An educational web-based ocean current reference site is being constructed. Each major ocean current has a listing of important links, text and data plots. The text provides a detailed summary of observed velocities, transport, salinity, temperature, water mass characteristics, and seasonal variability for each current. Data plots include average and seasonal surface current fields derived from ship-drift, sea surface temperature maps, near-surface drifter trajectories, topographic maps, geography, video clips, circulation schematics, and output from numerical simulations by the HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling. Examples for the Atlantic Ocean will be presented. A glossary of oceanographic terms, a tutorial on ocean circulation, a primer on ocean current observations, and a description of oceanography as a career are also on the site.
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2005 LAPCOD Meeting, Lerici, Italy, June 13-17, 2005