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Physical Oceanography / Oceanografía Física
Coastal Ecosystems & Health / Ecosistemas Costeros y Salud
Satellite Imagery & Remote Sensing Data / Imágenes de Sátelites y Datos de Percepción Remota
Climate Observations & Air/Sea Interactions / Observaciones Climáticas e Interacciones
del Mar y la Atmósfera
Earth Science / Ciencias Terrestres
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) / Sistemas de Información Geográfica (SIG)

Physical Oceanography /Oceanografía Física

• Caribbean Mean SSTs and Winds
  http://www.rsmas.miami.edu/~geoff/carib.html
  Caribbean Mean SSTs (Pathfinder AVHRR) and Winds (NCEP/NCAR CDAS/Reanalysis Project) 

• CARIBBEAN OPAREA
  http://www.nlmoc.navy.mil/cgi-bin/main.pl?3
  Links to various sites: SST, winds, IR or visible, NOGAPS etc. 

• Drifting Buoy Data (NOAA/AOML)
  http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/dac.html
  Drifter tracks and SST of tropical Atlantic. Quite a few drifters just below Cuba and in the Florida Straits. 

• IASlinks.org
  http://www.IASlinks.org
  IASlinks.org - NOAA  

• National Data Buoy Center
  http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/stuff/caribbean/carbmapo.shtml
  Caribbean Sea Regional Map of Inactive Stations; only one station, with data from 1984-1997 

• National Ocean Service (NOS) of NOAA
  http://www.nos.noaa.gov/
  The home page has information about this governmental agency  

• NOAA EPIC On-line Oceanographic Data
  http://www.epic.noaa.gov/epic/epicselect.html
  PMEL EPIC On-line access to Oceanographic, Hydrographic and Time Series Data CTD data for Gulf of
  Mexico stations. 

• Oceanographic & Atmospheric Research/Data (Bermuda)
  http://www.bbsr.edu/Global_Change/global_change.html
  Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Station (BATS): Data from 3 cruises: CTD, bottle water samples,
  sediment trap flux, etc. Hydrostation S data: A biweekly time series of pressure, temperature, salinity,
  and oxygen data from 1954 until the present at 32 deg 10 min N latitude, 64 deg 30 min W longitude. 

• PROJECT NOPP DRIFTERS
  http://drifters.doe.gov/
  Presented by The National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) for educators and scientists. Many educational
  activities, data and results based on drifter buoy studies of ocean surface currents.  

• Reed's Almanac Tide Predictions
  http://www.reedsalmanac.com/resources/tides/index.html
  Online tide prediction for eastern Central America, Northern South America, Florida, and U.S. Gulf Coast 

• WOCE current meter database
  http://kepler.oce.orst.edu/#search
  Has archive data (late 80's through 90's) of the Equatorial Atlantic (20 S to 20 N). 

• World Meteorological Org. (IGOSS data)
  http://www.wmo.ch/
  SST, TOPEX, etc,. monthly data; climatology; weekly interactive global map; can zoom to region and get data. 

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• Real-Time SST Maps:
  
  

  • Atlantic SST (covers IAS region) and anomaly
    http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsst.html 

  • Caribbean Sea Marine Observations
    http://www.oceanweather.com/data/carib.html 

  • Global SST map
    http://www.fnoc.navy.mil/otis/otis_glbl_sst.gi
    Global SST map (previous page also gives you anomalies, climatology, etc.)

  • Global SST map (current)
    http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/sst/latest_sst.gif 

  • Gulf of Mexico Marine Observations
    http://www.oceanweather.com/data/gmex.html
    Marine observations taken by buoys (red), ships (blue) and coastal manned stations (purple) along
    with contours of mean sea level pressure (in millibars) taken from the National Center of Environmental
    Prediction's Aviation Model. 

  • Gulf of Mexico SST
    http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/grtmain.html#latest  

  • Marine Weather - Real time data
    http://www.marineweather.com/
    Tides times and currents, sea surface temps, winds, waves, Gulfstream maps, sunrise/sunset time,
    surface pressure, etc. 

  • Precipitable Water...
    http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/realtime/realtime.html#gesst  

  • Real time SST for regions of the IAS
    http://www.marine.usf.edu/~astrub/project/sstweb.html  

  • Weather Underground basic SST map
    http://www.wunderground.com:80/tropical/ 

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Coastal Ecosystems & Health /Ecosistemas Costeros y Salud

• National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) of NOAA
  http://www.nmfs.gov/
  The home page has information about this governmental agency. 

• NOAA's Coastal Services Center online data
  http://www.csc.noaa.gov/icmi/sect11.html
  Online oceanographic, meteorological, satellite, social science, and miscellaneous data from NOAA's Coastal
  Services Center. 

• Reefs at Risk
  http://www.wri.org/wri/indictrs/reefrisk.htm
  A detailed, map-based global assessment of coral reefs, released in 1998, can be perused online and
  ordered from the World Resources Institute, an international organization focusing on issues of the
  environment and sustainability. 

• The STRI Marine Environmental Sciences Program
  http://www.si.edu/stri/mesp/mesp.htm
  The Marine Environmental Sciences Program (MESP) of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI)
  is a program of long-term research monitoring environmental dynamics and the dynamics of coral reef
  organisms on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Panama. 

• UNEP Caribbean Environment Programme
  http://www.cep.unep.org/pubs/databases/links.html
  UNEP-CEP page provides links to databases on the protection and sustainable development of coastal and
  marine environments in the wider Caribbean region.