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. Each current description is a mix of history and science starting with simpler concepts and finishing with more specialized information. 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.
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/index.html
Oral presentation
Presentation is given by student: No
Session #:077
Date: 03-03-2008
Time: 16:30
Reference:
An Educational Web-based Ocean Current Reference site. A.J. Mariano, E.H. Ryan, 2008 Ocean Science Meeting, March 3-7, 2008, Session#: 077 Abstract ID: 3353.