Ocean Portal

This Ocean Portal aims at providing all kind of resources in the field of Physical Oceanography.

In situ observations

• Surface velocity
• GDP (Global Drofter Program, https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/index.php). World database for deep displacements from Argo floats.
• Deep water velocity
• RAFOS drifters (https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/float_traj/data.php). Compiled by WHOI and updated to 2017.
• YoMaHa07 (http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/yomaha/index.php). World database for deep displacements from Argo floats.
• Argo New Displacements Rannou and Ollitrault (ANDRO, http://www.coriolis.eu.org/Data-Products/Products/ANDRO or https://www.seanoe.org/data/00360/47077/). Another world database for deep displacements from Argo floats.
• Gridded fields and data products based on Argo data (http://www.argo.ucsd.edu/Gridded_fields.html)
• Argo Data Selction tool: https://nrlgodae1.nrlmry.navy.mil/cgi-bin/argo_select.pl

Satellite observations

• Sea surface temperature
• Operational Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Ice Analysis (OSTIA, http://ghrsst-pp.metoffice.gov.uk/ostia-website/index.html): daily data with a horizontal resolution of 1/20º.
• Optimum interpolation SST (https://psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded/data.noaa.oisst.v2.html): weekly or monthly data with a horizontal resolution of 1º.
• Sea surface salinity
• Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS, http://bec.icm.csic.es/ocean-global-sss/): 9-days mean data with a horizontal resolution of 1/4º.
• Aquarius (https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/datasetlist?ids=Collections&values=Aquarius): yearly data with a horizontal resolution of 1º.
• Sea surface height
• Ocean surface topography from space (https://sealevel.jpl.nasa.gov/data/). Several products.
• Satellite altimetry data (AVISO+, https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/sea-surface-height-produ...). Several products.
• Surface currents
• Ocean surface currents (http://oceanmotion.org/html/resources/oscar.htm).
• Wind field
• Geostrophic and Ekman Current Observatory (GECKO): http://www.legos.obs-mip.fr/members/sudre/gekco_form
• Eddy tracking systems
• Global mesoscale eddy trajectory product: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/data/products/value-added-products/glo... (formerly at http://wombat.coas.oregonstate.edu/eddies/)
• The near-Global Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Atmospheric-Oceanic-Biological Interaction Observational Dataset (GOMEAD): https://www.scidb.cn/en/detail?dataSetId=e8cdadf3d6624951b893f4498eb03ff1

Data repositories

• World Ocean Database (https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/SELECT/dbsearch/dbsearch.html)
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE): http://www.oceandataportal.org. Supported by UNESCO.
• Pan-European infrastructure for ocean & marine data management: https://www.seadatanet.org. Supported by EU.
• Pangaea, Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science (https://www.pangaea.de)

Climatologies

• World Ocean Atlas 2018 (WOA18): https://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/woa18/. Temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, percent oxygen saturation, apparent oxygen utilization, solicate, phosphate and nitrate climatologies.
• G-YoMaHa (http://www.jamstec.go.jp/ARGO/argo_web/argo/?page_id=86&lang=en). Climatological drift data from Argo floats at 1000 depth.
• Roemmich-Gilson Argo Climatology (http://sio-argo.ucsd.edu/RG_Climatology.html).
• WOCE Global Hydrographic Climatology (https://www.cen.uni-hamburg.de/en/icdc/data/ocean/woce-climatology.html).
• WOCE-Argo Global Hydrographic Climatology (WAGHC) (https://doi.org/10.1594/WDCC/WAGHC_V1.0).
• Drifter-Derived Climatology of Global Near-Surface Currents (https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/gdp/mean_velocity.php).
• Mix-layer depth climatology, by IFREMER (http://www.ifremer.fr/cerweb/deboyer/mld/home.php).
• Mix-layer depth climatology, by APDRC (http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/datadoc/mld.php).

Numerical models

• HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM, https://www.hycom.org).
• Nucleus for European Modelling of the Ocean (NEMO, https://www.nemo-ocean.eu).

Software

• Ocean Data View (ODV, https://odv.awi.de).
• Matlab tools for oceanographic analysis (Sea-Mat, https://sea-mat.github.io/sea-mat/).
• Ocean Python (https://oceanpython.org).

Online Data Viewers

• Giovanni (https://giovanni.gsfc.nasa.gov/giovanni/).
• Earth (https://earth.nullschool.net)
• EOSDIS Worldview (https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/).

Reference docs

• Physical Oceanography, Vol I. Albert Defant, 1961 (https://archive.org/details/physicaloceanogr01defa/mode/2up)
• Physical Oceanography, Vol II. Albert Defant, 1961 (https://archive.org/details/physicaloceanogr02defa/mode/2up)
• Glossary of Physical Oceanography and Related Disciplines, by Steven K. Baum, 2004 (http://pong.tamu.edu/~baum/paleo/ocean/ocean.html)
• Introduction to Physical Oceanography, by Robert H. Stewart, 2008 (https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/160216)

Teaching resources

• Ocean motion and surface currents (http://www.oceanmotion.org)
• Evolution of Physical Oceanography (https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-12-000-evolution-of-physical-oceanogra...)
• Introduction to Observational Physical Oceanography (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-...)
• Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean (https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-...)
• Oceanography, at Science Education Resource Central (https://serc.carleton.edu/serc/site_guides/oceans.html)
• Twitter thread with resources for teaching Oceanography: https://twitter.com/Tessa_M_Hill/status/1241424263149531137.
• ICM Divulga (http://icmdivulga.icm.csic.es).

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me at francisco.machin@ulpgc.es.