Current Sea Surface
Temperature Plot
Unisys Weather, Unisys Corporation
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Current Operational SST Anomaly Charts for the year 2007
Information Processing Division,
Office of Satellite Data Processing
& Distribution (OSDPD),
National Environmental Satellite, Data, and
Information Service (NESDIS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
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Interdecadal Variations in North Atlantic SST’s
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO),
The Earth Institute at Columbia University
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New Sea-Surface Temperature Analysis Implemented at NCEP
Dr. H. Jean Thiébaux, Ocean Modeling Branch,
Environmental Modeling Center,
National Centers for Environmental Prediction
(NCEP),
National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
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The Real-Time, Global Sea Surface Temperature Analysis:
RTG_SST
Dr. H. Jean Thiébaux, Mr. Bert Katz, Dr. Wanqiu Wang &
Mr. Lawrence D. Burroughs,
Technical Procedures Bulletin Series No. 477,
Office of Meteorology,
National Weather Service (NWS),
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
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The Real Time Ocean Environment
Naval Research Laboratory (NRL-SSC), Stennis Space Center (NASA)
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Sea Surface Temperature
Coastal Ocean Habitat Project,
Coastal Remote Sensing (CRS) Program,
NOAA Coastal Services Center,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
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Sea Surface Temperature Imagery
AVHRR Imagery,
Ocean Remote Sensing Group,
Applied Physics Laboratory (APL),
The Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
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Sea Surface Temperature Products
Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC),
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(NASA) &
California Institute of Technology
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SST ANOMALIES °C (animation)
Map Room, NOAA-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) &
Cooperative Institute for Research in
Environmental Sciences (CIRES)
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Ocean temperature shifts may precede Western droughts
Cyberwest Magazine, Inc. [ 20 February 2003 ]
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Some say man’s final frontier lies not in space, but within
our oceans. For all our attempts at understanding and dominance, the
oceans, which make up over 70 percent of the Earth’s entire surface
area, remain largely unexplored. The reason for our inability to
pierce the ocean depths in more than a cursory manner can be explained by
one word — pressure. While we have been able to
overcome the vacuum of space, the crushing pressure exerted within the
depths of the oceans restricts our sojourn to the topmost layers of their
watery expanse. Only very high-tech deep submergence vehicles (DSVs) and
diving suits permit us an all-too-brief encounter with what lies within
the darkest recesses of the abyss. The irony is that, as
Earth’s most highly evolved organism, we find ourselves largely
denied the opportunity to return to the place from which modern science
believes all life on Earth derives.
Oceanography is the study of our ocean environment, just as meteorology
is the study of our atmosphere. The linkage between the two is
inescapable;
air-sea
interaction is an important area of research within both sciences.
Oceanography encompasses topics ranging from the effect of sea-surface
winds on ocean chemistry to the study of marine geology and deep-water
sediments. Between and inclusive of the upper and lower ocean regions is
a tremendously diverse biosphere and a land-sea boundary essential for its
maintenance and reproduction — these too fall within the purview of
the discipline of oceanography.
Our oceans are a key component of the planetary ecosystem; environmental
protection of these crucial assets requires that we understand them,
their interactions with the land environment on which we live, and our
effects as a species on their well-being. Damage to our oceans, which
is proceeding at an alarming rate, may very well have widespread and
irreversible consequences for all life on Earth. Can we afford to let
this happen? Central to our protection of the marine environment is our
understanding of that environment. Oceanography has become a critical
area of scientific study in the world today and will increase in its
importance as continental resources dwindle and Man focuses upon the
sea as a new source for raw material and living space.
Authored by Kenneth L. Anderson.
Original article published 26 April 2003.
Follow links to the right to learn more about sea surface temperature (commonly referred to as SST),
its measurement, real-time sea surface temperature plots, and the effects
of sea surface temperature on regional and global climates.
At the left margin, Related Links address topics of interest
pertaining to oceanography that may help us all better understand and
appreciate our oceans and the role oceanographers play in unlocking the
secrets of what has long remained one of the most mysterious and
foreboding habitats of planet Earth. View the
Oceanography SiteMap
for a complete list of oceanography and ocean-related topics.
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