School Source: Physical Oceanography
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DATA SOURCES HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS
Bathymetry:
 2-minutes Smith and Sandwell's measured and estimated seafloor topography (for MatLab function satbath)
Coastlines:
 NGDC Coastline extractor
Shoreline:
 Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline data (for MatLab function gshhs)
Climatology:
 Levitus 94 World Ocean Atlas: 3-d fields of oceanic characteristics at annual, seasonal and monthly time scales.
Sea Surface Time-Series:
 NOAA's National Data Buoy Center
Tides:
 Tides Online NOAA's National Ocean Service
Data Synthesis:
 NOAA's National Oceanographic Data Center

photo by Nadya Vinogradova
MS Sound from Pass Christian
POM: Princeton Ocean Model
ECOM: Estuarine-Coastal Ocean Model
NLOM: Navy Layered Ocean Model
MICOM: Miami Isopycnic Coordinate Ocean Model
MOM: GFDL Modular Ocean Model
HYCOM: Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model
NCOM: Navy Coastal Ocean Model
NCOM: NCAR Climate System Ocean Model
COAMPS: Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System
FRAM: Fine Resolution Antarctic Model
MIKE: Commercial Marine Models by DHI Software
ROMS: Regional Ocean Model System

 
 
 
 
 

 
MS Bight: photo by Joe Tegeder
Typical Gulf of Mecico T/S diagrams
Errors in satellite-derived bathymetry
TOOLS TABLES
Generic Mapping Tools
Electronic Atlas of WOCE Data
MatLab Toolkit for computation of seawater properties
SEASOFT package  by  SBE, Inc.:
 software for CTD data processing and interface with instruments 
Physical quantities
Time scales
Dynamical quantities
Length scales
Nondimestional quantities
Velocity scales

 
 
 

 

 Gulf of Mexico
LINKS SOCIETIES
A Multimedia Tour of the Solar System
NASA's Real-time track of satellites revolving around Earth
Model visualization methods
Library's online catalog
History of US Navy
Russian Navy Web Site
http://amsglossary.com Glossary of Meteorology

 
Marine Technology Society
The Oceanography Society
American Geophysical Union
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
Acoustical Society of America
American Meteorological Society
Mississippi Sound bathymetry

 
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