Abstract:

A web-based ocean current reference site is being constructed at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, U. of Miami. The Atlantic Ocean Surface Current page will be put on-line for the Ocean Science meeting. Each major ocean current has a listing of important links, text and data plots. The text provides a detailed summary of observed velocities, transport, temperature, and 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, and output from numerical simulations by the HYCOM Consortium for Data-Assimilative Ocean Modeling.

Reference:

A Web-based Ocean Current Reference Site. A.J. Mariano, E.H. Ryan, J. Gyory, 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting, EOS Transactions, 11-15 February 2002, (OS11F-79).

Links:
OS11F-79