Real-Time Data Links

SST (Sea Surface Temperatures)

SST Gulf Stream Imaging from Johns Hopkins
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/gs/index.html
Historical data available

CoastWatch Program at Beaufort, NC
http://www.bea.nmfs.gov/
Local SE Node for SST (must register), good source for close data

SST anomalies

Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution
http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/OSDPD/OSDPD_high_prod.html
A wealth of information about mean SST, and anomalies based on satellite data (historical data available) Zoom in for specialized data.

Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS)
http://www.saa.noaa.gov:8080/cocoon/nsaa/products/welcome

Coastwatch Imagery

NOAA CoastWatch Ocean Product Server
http://wwwo2c.nesdis.noaa.gov/

NOAA CoastWatch Ocean Data
http://wwwo2c.nesdis.noaa.gov/ops_sitemap.htm#Data

GOES SST Browse
http://wwwo2c.nesdis.noaa.gov/cwatch/gsst_browse_framed.htm
Great browsing site for data, and GeoTIFF images (remember to split your screen, otherwise you won't see your choices); also a nice applet to view SST locally over a period of time (select images before beginning and use zoom tools) . GeoTIFFs available from March 2002 to current.

Real time buoy data and drifter bottles

National Data Bouy Center
http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/index.shtml

Drifting Bouy Data Assembly Center and Global Drifter Center
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dac/
Drifter data for YOTO floats and others

Oceanography of the Intra-Americas Sea
http://www.iaslinks.org/ias-rto.html
More visual displays of float data

Argo
http://www-argo.ucsd.edu/

Atlantic Oceeanographic and Meteorologic Laboratory
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/trinanes/xbt.html
Hurricane floats

YOTO Drifter Near-Real Time Viewer
http://www-ccar.colorado.edu/~realtime/yoto-drifters/

GLOBE
http://www.globe.gov
Download data for individual YOTO floats

Topex-Poseidon data
includes SSH, wave height, water vapor

Topex Quick Look Images
http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/topex/

Global SST compared to SSH

Ocean Surface Topography from Space
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Time Series Data Images
http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/science/time-series-images.html

Altimeter data and Geostrophic flow

Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry
http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/SAT.html

Near-Real Time Seal Level Images
http://ibis.grdl.noaa.gov/SAT/near_rt/index.html

Gulf Stream Near-Real Time Altimeter Data Viewer
http://e450.colorado.edu/realtime/welcome/
Archived data back to 1996 specifically about the Gulf Stream

Naval Research Laboratory ( Stennis Space Center)
Combined data source - SST, SSH, wind, and other parameters

North Atlantic
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/altimetry/regions/reg_nat.html

Archive Directory
http://www7320.nrlssc.navy.mil/altimetry/archives/arc_nat.html

Current velocities

DEOS Current Velocities of the Gulf Stream
http://rads.tudelft.nl/gulfstream

Hurricane tracking and satellite imagery

Hurricanes and Ocean Altimetry
http://www-ccar.colorado.edu/~altimetry/applications/hurricanes/index-bv3.html
Good summary article about the formation of hurricanes

Atlantic Hurricane Track Maps and Images
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/hurr/index.html
Archived data to include SST, tracts, AVHRR pictures of storms

Thermal Remote Sensing
http://imars.usf.edu/atlas/ThermRS.html

Altimetry and Hurricane Intensification
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/cyclone/data/
Interesting study of intensification of Hurricanes Opal and Bret

TAFB Forecast Products
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/forecast.shtml
Lots of details about hurricanes and forecasting storms

Physical Oceanography
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/bullets.html
What's new in the research world of air-sea interaction (hurricanes, and North Atlantic temperature fluctuations are highlighted)

Marine Geology and Maps

Profile of the Charleston Bump
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/islands01/background/islands/sup11_bump.html
Information related to bottom topography

NOAA Ocean Explorer Maps Gallery
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/gallery/maps/maps.html
Excellent maps including bottom and surface coastal topography

USGS GLORIA Mapping Program
http://kai.er.usgs.gov/gloria/index.html

US Atlantic East Coast Coastal and Marine Geology Map
http://kai.er.usgs.gov/ArcIms/Website/usa/eastcoast/atlanticcoast/viewer.htm
Interactive map viewer

Miscellaneous data

Islands in the Stream
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/islands01/background/wind/wind.html
Excellent explanation of the loop currents in the Gulf of Mexico as well as biological distribution of organisms

World Ocean Atlas Series
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/OC5/indprod.html
World Ocean data sets