IMOS OceanCurrent

OceanCurrent - Ocean Surface Currents and Temperature

Ocean News:
Sydney-Hobart yacht race: ocean currents looking very favourable this year (20, 22, 23 December 2014) [more...]

Technical News:
New or re-processed moored current meter (including non-ADCP) data, and tidal analysis (15, 21, 29 January 2015): [more ...]

Prepared maps and animations

[Source Data] [what's shown] [animation won't play?]

Imagery for import into Google Earth

[West Australia, last 6 days] [2008-now] [East Australia, last 6 days] [2008-now] NB: see 9 Jan 2015 notice
Click one of these links to make a map of the anomaly of 3-day average SST for WA or East Australia appear in Google Earth. If you select the 'last 6 days' link, drag the time slider right to see the most recent data. For either recent or old, zoom in to see 'snapshot' images of SST anomaly, overlain with altimeter-derived estimates of currents. Move the time slider slowly to load other days' data. Tip: Do not save this to My Places in GE. To refresh tomorrow, reload from the website.
The GE screenshot at left [expand] shows an ocean rower positioning himself to get a free ride with the current, as an example of how GE enables you to combine information from several sources.

Argo temperature and salinity Moored current meters and CTDs Gliders

Access to data files

[IMOS data portal] [Near-Real-Time gridded altimetry via OPeNDAP] [Delayed-Mode gridded altimetry via OPeNDAP] [IMOS Satellite Remote Sensing Facility]

Methods

[Technical details] [Glossary] [References] [Acknowledgements]

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