- Photographs and descriptions of the Earth's oceans, islands
and coastlines derived from space shuttle data.
[http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/shuttle_oceanography_web/oss_cover.html]
- Principles of thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer, fluid
mechanics, continuum mechanics, and time-series analysis applied
to marine geological and geophysical data. Applications include
the thermal balance of the oceanic lithosphere, Pleistocene
sedimentation and global climate change, and sediment transport in
high energy environments.
[http://www2.ocean.washington.edu/oc540/index.html]
- A self-paced, computer-based course on numerical methods with
applications to oceanography and meteorology.
[http://www.geog.ubc.ca/numeric]
- A NASA sponsored program to develop and support educational
materials for the advancing technologies of remote sensing and
its integration with spatial information systems.
[http://www.umbc.edu/rscc]
- An introduction to imaging radar and its applications in
oceanography and climatology. A free CD-ROM can also be
obtained from this site.
[http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/]
- An introduction to the El Nino phenomenon as well as access
to data related to it.
[http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html]
- A lab program developed at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy
that provides an introduction to remote sensing and its uses.
[http://satori.gso.uri.edu/mike/cgasat_lab.html]
[http://satori.gso.uri.edu/mike/cgasat_lab.html]
- A hypertext primer on how ocean color from space is obtained and
how it's used. This makes profuse use of graphics.
[http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/ocdst_introduction.html]
- An overview of ocean circulation modeling and pending
problems by Albert Semtner.
[http://vislab-www.nps.navy.mil/~braccio/science/semtner.html]
- A Web page as a supplement to a general oceanography course
taught at San Jose State University by Don Reed.
[http://geosun1.sjsu.edu/~dreed/105.html]
- Lectures notes by Matthias Tomczak for the oceanography section
of introductory courses in Earth Sciences and Environmental
Earth Sciences.
[http://gaea.es.flinders.edu.au/~mattom/ES1/contents.html]
- This is the beginnings of an interactive hypertext
introduction to oceanography course.
[http://www.ocean.fsu.edu/~nancy/1001/index.html]
- A hypertext version of the Frequently Asked Questions document
for satellite imagery. It serves as an overview and a source
list.
[http://www.geog.nottingham.ac.uk/remote/satfaq.html]
- An introduction to infrared satellite imagery designed to be
used as classroom exercise. This was created to the Graduate
School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
[http://dcz.gso.uri.edu/amy/avhrr.html]
- A guide to education resources about obtaining images via remote
sensing radar, including a tutorial on how such things are produced.
[http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/education.html]
- This is an exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National
Museum of Natural History designed to promote celebration,
understanding and conservation of the world's oceans.
[http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html]
- The Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate experiment has a Web
page explaining its intent and methods. This is the experiment
that uses acoustic tomography to attempt to infer oceanic
temperatures and their changes over time.
[http://atoc.ucsd.edu/]
- The folks at the
Alfred Wegener Institute have converted their hardcopy atlas
into hypertext format
with HTML text and GIF versions (both reduced and full size) of
the maps therein.
[http://www.awi-bremerhaven.de/Atlas/SO/Deckblatt.html]
- This document, written by Mike McCartney, is part of a series of
short articles called
Coastal
Briefs.
It is a brief introduction to ocean currents
(with a few GIF figures).
[http://www.whoi.edu/coastal-briefs/Coast-Brief-94-05.html]
- This is a chapter in a hyperbook produced by the
Computational Science
Education Project (CSEP). It is a guide to numerical modeling
in geophysical fluid dynamics written by L. Kantha and
S. Piacsek.
[http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/om/om.html]
