11. List of External Links

Chapter 1: What are ocean currents and why are they important

Cape Farewell Home Page Artists, scientists, educationalists and school students look at climate change in the Arctic. Link to blogs, photos etc. from Arctic expeditions with the sailing ship Noorderlicht.

Responsible: Cape Farewell

URL: http://www.capefarewell.com

Last access: 23.09.2025

How currents affect us (1): operational ocean forecasting

MERCATOR Home Page Access to ocean forecasts of currents, temperature and salinity for the global ocean and selected regions.

Responsible: MERCATOR

URL: http://www.mercator-ocean.fr/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Ocean Forecasting Information on ocean forecasting

Responsible: UK Met Office / Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

URL: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/weather/ocean-forecasting

Last access: 23.09.2025

DMI Centre for Ocean and Ice Access to operational forecasts from the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Responsible: Danish Met Office

URL: http://ocean.dmi.dk/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Other sites on ship routing: a number of commercial companies offer ship-routing services. The key words ship routing and metocean should give you a good selection.

How currents affect us (2): fisheries and marine resouces

Marine Stewardship Council Home Page Information about sustainable fisheries, stories about marine conservation, and list of fisheries that have been certified as sustainable.

Responsible: Marine Stewardship Council

URL: http://www.msc.org/

Last access: 23.09.2025

How currents affect us (3): Conservation and resource management

Large Marine Ecosystems Information Portal Among much else, this website provides background information on all the LMEs, and access to maps and other information.

Responsible: NOAA/UNEP

URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/content/noaa-launches-new-national-marine-ecosystem-status-web-portal

Last access: 23.09.2025

Leatherback Turtles' Newly Discovered Migration Route May Be Roadmap To Salvation How knowledge of migration routes could guide fishing policy.

Responsible: Science Daily

URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714202504.htm

Last access: 23.09.2025

Recovery Plan for U.S. Pacific Populations of the Loggerhead Turtle
Plan outlining conservation measures (PDF)

Responsible: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/resource/document/recovery-plan-us-pacific-populations-loggerhead-turtle-caretta-caretta

Last access: 23.09.2025

How currents affect us (4): regional climate

Seasonal forecasting Explaining seasonal forecasts and how they are produced; links to seasonal forecasts for UK and Europe.

Responsible: UK Met Office

URL: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/seasonal-to-decadal/gpc-outlooks

Last access: 23.09.2025

Global climate Overview of climate in different regions of the world; good maps and figures.

Responsible: Waether-climate.org.uk

URL: http://www.weather-climate.org.uk/13.php

Last access: 23.09.2025

Chapter 2: Wind-driven surface currents

Climate variability and El Niňo Good explanation of El Niňo / La Niňa, with emphasis on impacts on Austrialia and Southeast Asia.

Responsible: Australian Bureau of Meteorology

URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml

Last access: 23.09.2025

UNESCO-Bilko image processing software Access to software used to process many of the images used in the oceancurrents module

Responsible: UNESCO-Bilko Project (hosted at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)

URL: https://www.bilko.org/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Meteosat Fulldisk Global Satellite Images.
Access to full disk image data from EUMETSAT/METEOSAT
NOAA-GOES/

URL: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/f_meteo.html

Last access: 23.09.2025

Pacific Toy Spill Fuels Ocean Current Pathways Research
Early popular science version of the plastic duck story published in Earth in Space Vol. 7, No. 2, October 1994, pp.7-9, 14.

Responsible: American Geophysical Union (AGU)

URL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/94EO01056

Last access: 23.09.2025

Chapter 3: The global conveyor

The Thermohaline Ocean Circulation Overview of the THC, what drives it, and its effect on climate

Responsible: Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

URL: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/thc_fact_sheet.html

Last access: 23.09.2025

Chapter 4: Currents and life in the ocean

Ocean Color Web NASA Goddard ocean colour home page: access to satellite data from SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua ocean colour instruments

Responsible: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre

URL: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG) Home page of IOCCG with links to reports and information about current ocean colour research and applications of ocean colour measurements from space.

Responsible: IOCCG

URL: https://ioccg.org/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Chapter 5: Local currents

Waves, Tides and Shallow Water Processes
Open University

Elsevier, 1989

URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780080363721/waves-tides-and-shallow-water-processes

Last access: 23.09.2025

Chapter 6: Measuring ocean currents

AVISO Home page of AVISO, the organisation that distributes satellite altimetry data and products. Principles behind altimetry; how altimetry can be used to measure sea level, currents, tides and waves; data access.

Responsible: AVISO (NASA-JPL and CNES)

URL: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/home.html

Last access: 23.09.2025

Argo Home Page Home page of the international Argo Float programme, with information about Argo, access to data etc.

Responsible: Argo / University of California, San Diego

URL: https://argo.ucsd.edu/

Last access: 23.09.2025

Explore the Ocean with Argo Euro-Argo outreach pages: View Argo in Google Earth, and find out about the different regions of the oceans where the floats are found.

Responsible: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

URL: https://noc.ac.uk/projects/mocca

Last access: 23.09.2025