National Aeronautics and Space Administration official home page

 

University of Rhode Island official home page

 

Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island official home page

 

Other Data Portals:

Sea Surface TemperatureSea surface temperature field for the western North Atlantic showing the Gulf Stream off the eastern coast of the United States

Sea Surface HeightSea Surface Height field of the eastern Pacific Ocean showing a strong El Nino.

Ocean Surface WindsSurface ocean wind field under a hurricane.

Ocean ColorChlorophyll field of the North and South Atlantic.

Ocean Surface PrecipitationRainfall intensity near the center of Hurricane Katrina shows areas of deep convection where latent heat is being released into the storm.

Other Ocean DataAverage distribution of water vapor in January 2003, measured from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere.

Average distribution of water vapor in January 2003, measured from the Earth's surface to the top of the atmosphere.

Other Ocean Data Portal

The following list summarizes some of the important characteristics of OPeNDAP served data sets accessible through this portal. Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) have been developed to search and access some of these data collections and can be acquired in the Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox. These data sets, which include other variables not measured in the five main categories, are more fully described in a THREDDS catalog. This catalog includes important metadata, as well as enabling further access to the data down to the granule level.

All of the following data collections are available via OPeNDAP command line clients as well as through the Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox:

  • HYCOM North Atlantic Prediction System Model data of surface ocean conditions in the North and Equatorial Atlantic on a 1/12° grid. A Matlab GUI has been developed for this data set and is available in the Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox.
  • NASA/GSFC AIRS Physical Retrieval Product includes measurements of atmospheric water vapor and precipitable water above the surface ocean. The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) is a high spectral resolution spectrometer that has been in sun-synchronous orbit aboard NASA's Aqua satellite since 2002. This Level 3 product consists of daily, weekly and monthly gridded data at 1° resolution. A Matlab GUI has been developed for this data set and is available in the Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox.
  • WHOI Objectively Analyzed Air-Sea Fluxes (OAFlux) are part of a project that will soon release an enhanced air-sea heat flux analysis product for the global oceans for the last 50 years. The current release includes daily and monthly, 1° gridded global surface latent and sensible heat fluxes since 1981, all validated against in situ flux measurements. Net longwave and shortwave radiations acquired from the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) since 1983 are also provided with these data at the same spatial and temporal resolution. A Matlab GUI has been developed for this data set and is available in the Matlab OPeNDAP Ocean Toolbox.