- Ocean Planet: Ocean Currents
Quickly defines the different types of currents and movement of ocean waters.
seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_currents_1.html
- Ocean Surface Currents
Provides an introduction to ocean gyres as well as specifics about ocean surface currents by basin.
oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/index.html
- NOAA Ocean Surface Current Analyses - Real Time (OSCAR)
Features near-realtime ocean surface currents derived from satellite altimeter and scatterometer data. Offers user-customizable graphics, data downloads, project descriptions, and related links.
www.oscar.noaa.gov
- Wind Driven Ocean Currents: Of Shoes and Ships and Rubber Ducks and a Message in a Bottle
Looks at how oceanographers have long used floating objects to discover and study ocean currents.
www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/elements/shoes.htm
- Windows to the Universe: Currents of the Ocean
Simple primer on ocean currents with additional information about ocean waters, layers, wind, the Coriolis Effect, and related topics.
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Water/ocean_currents.html
- Surface and Subsurface Ocean Currents
Excerpt from the Fundamentals of Physical Geography.
www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/physgeog/contents/8q.html
- Ocean Currents and Climate Change
Talk addressing currents' profound influence on climate.
www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/Lectures/ocean_currents.html
- Atlantic Coastline: The Gulf Stream
Describes the efforts through out history to understand the "river in the ocean".
www.coastalguide.com/bearings/gulfstream01.htm
- Rapid Climate Change (RAPID)
Examining the probability and magnitude of future rapid change in climate, focusing on the role of the Atlantic Ocean's thermohaline circulation.
www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid
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