Internet Resources on Ocean Remote Sensing Sensors, Data, Education, and Ocean Models

 

 

Compiled by

 

Harald Sodemann and Thorkild Aarup

GOOS Project Office

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

UNESCO

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Fax : + 33 1 45 68 58 10

E-mail : t.aarup@unesco.org

 

 


 

Introduction and Disclaimer

 

Many GOOS products rely on remote sensing observations and numerical ocean models. As such the GOOS Project Office (GPO) is often asked for information on how to obtain remote sensing data/products, processing software and numerical model software. In response to that need the GPO has compiled an Internet resource list. This list is narrowly targeted towards remote sensing and ocean modelling. It is not intended to be an all-exhaustive list. (The IOC Ocean Portal and the NASA Global Change Master Directory are examples of such lists). Rather it is a selection of some tools that may be of use in developing national and regional GOOS products.

 

Please note that inclusion of data, products, software and similar in this list does not in any way imply endorsement by GOOS or the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of these items.

 

Any comments to the list can be sent to t.aarup@unesco.org.

 


 

I. Remote Sensing Resources

 

1. Ocean Variable Overview

 

This table provides a cross-reference between some common ocean variables and the respective satellite missions and sensors.

 

Ocean Variable

Mission (Agency)

SSH

TOPEX/Poseidon (NASA/CNES),

Jason-1 (NASA/CNES),

ERS-2 (ESA),

ENVISAT (ESA)

SST

AVHRR (NOAA/NASA),

ATSR-2/ERS-2 (ESA),

AATSR/ENVISAT (ESA),

MODIS/EOS-Terra/Aqua (NASA),

AMSR-E/EOS-Aqua (NASA/NASDA),

CBERS-2 (INPE) launch 01/2003,

OCTS/ADEOS (NASDA)

Winds

Seawinds/QuickSCAT (NASA),

ERS-2 (ESA),

Seawinds/ADEOS-2 (NASDA),

SSM/I (DMSP),

CBERS-2 (INPE) launch 01/2003,

WindSat (US DoD) launch 15/12/02

SSS

Aquarius (NASA) launch TBD

SMOS (ESA) launch 2007

Sea Ice

SSM/I (DMSP),

ERS-2 (ESA),

ASARE/ENVISAT (ESA),

MODIS/EOS-Terra/Aqua (NASA),

Radarsat-1 (CSA),

ICESat (NASA)

Ocean Colour

SeaWiFS (NASA),

MODIS/EOS-Aqua (NASA),

MERIS/ENVISAT (ESA),

OCTS/ADEOS (NASDA)

Precipitation

TRMM (NASA/NASDA),

SSM/I (DMSP)

Cloud Cover

METEOSAT (EUMETSAT),

Aerosols

ENVISAT (ESA),

Polder-2/ADEOS-2 (CNES)

SSH=Sea Surface Height; SST=Sea Surface Temperature; SSS=Sea Surface Salinity

x Sensor out of operation

x Forthcoming mission

x mostly commercial data

 

2. Satellites and Sensors

This section provides a selection of links to mission details of multi- and single sensor earth observation satellites.

Earth Observation Satellites

 

ENVISAT Mission Homepage

http://earth.esa.int/envisat/

 

ENVISAT carries ASAR (Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar), DORIS (Doppler Orbitography and Radiopositioning Integrated by Satellite system), the Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS), MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer Instrument MERIS, Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS). MicroWave Radiometer (MWR), Radar Altimeter 2 (RA-2).

ESA

 

GSFC EOS Aqua Mission Homepage

http://aqua.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

EOS Aqua carries AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder), AMSU-A (Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit), HSB (Humidity Sounder for Brazil), AMSR-E (Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS), MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), and CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System).

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

NASA EOS Aqua Mission Homepage

http://aqua.nasa.gov/

 

see description above

NASA, USA

 

EOS Aqua AMSR-E Instrument Homepage

http://wwwghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

 

Description of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for EOS-Aqua (AMSR-E) instrument and links to data and further resources.

Global Hydrology and Climate Center (GHCC)/NASA, USA

 

EOS Terra Homepage

http://terra.nasa.gov/

 

EOS Terra carries ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer), CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System), MISR (Multi-angle Imaging Spectro-Radiometer), MODIS (Moderate-Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer), and MOPITT (Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere).

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

ADEOS Mission Homepage

http://www.eorc.nasda.go.jp/ADEOS/index.html

 

Advanced Earth Observing Satellite (ADEOS) "MIDORI" provided a large volume of data about atmosphere, ocean and land for about 10 months beginning in August 1996, until it suddenly got out of control on June 30, 1997 due to a failure of the solar panel.

NASDA, Japan

 

ERS-1/2 Mission Homepage

http://earth.esa.int/ers/instruments/index.html

 

ERS carries Radar Altimeter (RA), Along-track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR), Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), Micro Wave Sounder (MWR), Sythetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and Wind Scatterometer (WS)

ESA

 

Altimetry Satellites

 

TOPEX/Poseidon Mission Homepage

http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

Ocean Surface Topography Mapping/Satellite Altimetry

NASA/CNES,USA/France

 

Link list to further TOPEX/Poseidon Homepages

http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/links.html

 

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Jason-1 Mission Homepage

http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/jason-1.html

 

Ocean Surface Topography Mapping/Satellite Altimetry, follow-up mission to TOPEX/Poseidon

NASA/CNES, USA/France

 

Ocean Colour Satellites

 

SeaWiFS Mission Homepage

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS.html

 

The SeaWiFS instrument on board of the SeaStar spacecraft is an eight-band optical scanner covering wavelengths between 402-885 nm.

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

Sea Ice and Meteorology Satellites

 

TRMM Mission Homepage

http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.

NASA/NASDA, USA/Japan

 

SSM/I Instrument Homepage

http://dmsp.ngdc.noaa.gov/html/sensors.html

 

Description of the SSM/I sensor and data products

Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP)

 

Radarsat Mission Homepage

http://www.space.gc.ca/csa_sectors/earth_environment/radarsat/default.asp

 

RADARSAT-1 is equipped with a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) sensor.

CSA, Canada

 

ICESat Mission Homepage

http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

Ice-sheet topography, clouds and atmospheric properties from the Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) instrument.

GSFC/NASA, USA

 


3. Remote Sensing Data and Products

This section provides a selection of links to multi-mission databases, as well as links to imagery and products for specific sensors.

 

Multimission Data Bases

 

ESA Earth Observation User Services

http://earth.esa.int/services/catalogues.html

 

Data catalogues DESCw (multimission), EOLI (ENVISAT), IONIA (ERS), ATSR (ERS-2) SST and near-real time data service.

ESA

 

Odisseo Online Catalogue

http://odisseo.esrin.esa.it/

 

Multimission online catalogue (ERS-1/2, ENVISAT, AVHRR/NOAA, SeaWiFS, MODIS/EOS-Terra)

ESA

 

Product Guide of Earth Observation User Services

http://earth.esa.int/services/pg/

 

Information about and ordering of mission products from ENVISAT, ERS-1/2, JERS-1, NOAA AVHRR, MODIS/EOS-Terra, and others.

ESA

 

Centre ERS d'Archivage et de Traitement (CERSAT)

http://www.ifremer.fr/cersat/

 

CERSAT is a multi-mission data centre for archiving, processing and validating data from altimeters, scatterometers, radiometers, SAR, etc. It makes available homogeneous time series of value-added data of the sea surface state (wind fields, fluxes, waves or sea-ice).

French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER), France

 

Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/index.html

 

Access to Satellite Services products, the Satellite Active Archive, and Direct Satellite Readout of environmental satellite data received by NOAA.

NESDIS/NOAA, USA

 

CoastWatch Ocean Product Server

http://wwwo2c.nesdis.noaa.gov/

 

Surface winds, ocean colour, and sea surface temperatures, derived from AVHRR, QuickSCAT, and ERS-1/2 satellites, covering coastal regions of the U.S.

NESDIS/NOAA, USA

 

Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PO DAAD)

http://podaac-www.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

Data catalogue and services covering among others the missions TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, NOAA AVHRR, ERS-1, QuickSCAT, SSM/I, and MODIS/EOS-Terra.

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Space Science and Engineering Center

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/

 

Real-time satellite images, real-time satellite products, other data and resources.

University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 

Satellite Applications Centre (SAC)

http://www.sac.co.za/

 

Satellite data base with South African coverage, including data from SPOT-1/2/4, ERS-1/2, AVHRR/NOAA, SeaWiFS.

SAC/Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa

 

Remote Sensing Systems Data Archive

http://www.ssmi.com/

 

SSM/I, TMI/TRMM, AMSR-E/EOS-Aqua and QuickSCAT data archive

Remote Sensing Systems, USA

 

Australian Centre for Remote Sensing (ACRES)

http://www.auslig.gov.au/acres/prod_ser/index.htm#online

 

Free online access to current MODIS/EOS-Aqua/Terra and NOAA-16 data, covering Australia and Oceania.

ACRES/Geoscience Australia

 

Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing (CRISP) Online Catalogue

http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/

 

CRISP operates a satellite ground station to acquire and processes remote sensing data for distribution and research from SPOT-1/2/4, ERS-1/2, Radarsat-1, SeaWiFS, NOAA, FY-1C, MODIS/EOS-Terra.

CRISP/National University of Singapore

 

Sea Surface Temperature Data

 

Satellite Active Archive (SAA)

http://www.saa.noaa.gov/

 

The SAA an online facility for the distribution of NOAA and US Department of Defense polar-orbiting environmental satellite data and derived products (AVHRR pathfinder)

NOAA, USA

 

AVHRR Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature (SST)

http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/sst/

 

Daily, 8-daily, and monthly averaged sea surface temperature (SST) data for daytime and night time, derived from AVHRR Pathfinder on board of the NOAA-7,-9,-11 and -14 polar orbiting satellites.

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Products

http://www.osdpd.noaa.gov/PSB/EPS/SST/SST.html

 

AVHRR-derived products include among others SST charts, SST anomalies, and coral bleaching indices.

NESDIS/NOAA, USA

 

Australian Oceanographic Data Center

http://www.aodc.gov.au/

 

Charts and maps of SST, salinity, and currents for coastal regions of Australia.

Royal Australian Navy, Australia

 

MERCATOR Oceanic Analyses and Forecasts

http://www.mercator.eu.org/

 

Analysis and prediction of altimetry, temperature and salinity in different levels, and sea level anomaly (partly in French).

MERCATOR project, France

 

Scatterometry Data

 

Air-Sea Interaction & Climate Team

http://airsea-www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.html

 

Scatterometer-derived ocean winds from QuickSCAT, NSCAT, ERS-2 satellites

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Altimetry Data

 

Altimeter Data Archive Homepage

http://www-ccar.colorado.edu/~leben/research.html

 

Near-real-time and historical altimetry data from TOPEX/Poseidon and ERS-1/2

Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research (CCAR), University of Colorado, USA

 

AVISO Homepage

http://www.aviso.oceanobs.com/

 

Aviso distributes satellite altimetry data from Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1, ERS-1 and ERS-2, and EnviSat, and Doris precise orbit determination and positioning products. Besides access to data and products, it offers a complete overview of the techniques and applications of satellite altimetry.

Archiving, Validation and Interpretation of Satellites Oceanographic data/Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (AVISO/CNES), France

 

Ocean Colour Data

 

Ocean Colour Data and Software

http://www.ioccg.org/archive.html

 

Links to ocean colour data from currently operational and past sensors, in-situ receiving stations, and links to ocean colour related software

International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG)

 

Ocean Color Panorama

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

 

Ocean Colour data from various sensors, including MODIS/EOS-Terra/Aqua, SeaWiFS, OCTS, CZCS.

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

Ocean Colour Data and Resources

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/CAMPAIGN_DOCS/OCDST/OB_main.html

 

The Goddard DAAC provides access to data from ocean color sensors currently in operation, as well as historical data sets.

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

Meteorology Data

 

Meteosat Images

http://www.eumetsat.de/

 

Images of the globe are taken half-hourly by EUMETSAT's Meteosat satellites from the geostationary orbit about 36000 km above the equator.

EUMETSAT

 

Geostationary Satellite Server

http://www.goes.noaa.gov/

 

Global Coverage of METEOSAT and GMS infrared, visible, and water vapour imagery

NESDIS/NOAA, USA

 


4. Ground Receiving Centers

This section provides a selection of links to some ground receiving centers.

 

·          Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) (http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca)

 

·          China Remote Sensing Satellite Ground Station (CRSSGS) (www.rsgs.ac.cn)

 

·          Indonesia: National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Remote Sensing Application Center (LAPAH) (http://www.lapanrs.com/)

 

·          Japan: Earth Observation Center (EOC) (http://www.eoc.nasda.go.jp/)

 

·          South Africa: Satellite Applications Centre (SAC) (www.sac.co.za)

 

·          Thailand: Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA) (http://www.gistda.or.th/)

 


5. National and International Space Agencies

This section provides links to a selection of space agencies. Additional links can be found at the home page of the Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS) (www.ceos.org)

 

·          Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (www.space.gc.ca)

 

·          Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES, France) (www.cnes.fr)

 

·          Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE, Argentina) (http://www.conae.gov.ar)

 

·          Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP, USA) (www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/dmsp.html)

 

·          Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR, Germany) (www.dlr.de)

 

·          European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) (www.eumetsat.de/en/)

 

·          European Space Agency (ESA) (www.esrin.esa.it)

 

·          Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) (www.isro.org)

 

·          Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE, Brazil) (www.inpe.br/english/ www.dgi.inpe.br)

 

·          National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA, USA) (www.earth.nasa.gov)

 

·          National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA, USA) (www.noaa.gov)

 

·          National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) (www.nasda.go.jp)

 


6. Educational Resources on Remote Sensing

This section provides a selection of educational resources on remote.

 

General Remote Sensing Educational Resources

 

The Remote Sensing Tutorial (RST)

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

The RST is a training manual for learning the role of space science and technology for using remote sensing to monitor the earth and other planetary bodies. It may well be the most comprehensive, diverse, and up-to-date exposition and review of the history and accomplishments of NASA’s and other nations space program

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

Learning Resources from the CCRS

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/learn_e.html

 

Includes tutorials on remote sensing and digital imagery, and a remote sensing glossary

Canadian Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Canada

 

Eduspace

http://www.eduspace.esa.int/eduspace/main.asp?ulang=en

 

The European earth observation web site for secondary schools. The web site aims to give to the youth of Europe a portal to space applications and in particular to a wide-spread visibility of Earth Observation as co-ordinated by the European Space Agency (ESA) and its European and National Partners.

ESA

 

CNES Education

http://www.cnes.fr/cnes-edu/welcome.htm

 

Course material, books, CDs on space science, partly related to TOPEX/Poseidon and Jason. (in French).

Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), France

 

Ocean World Education Resources

http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/

 

Ocean World offers broad spectrum of educational resources on oceanography and oceanography-related remote sensing.

JPL/NASA and Texas A&M Oceanography, USA

 

Sensor-specific Educational Resources

 

Satellite Altimetry Education Resources

http://topex-www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/altimeter-basics.html

 

Material on the basics and history of satellite altimetry, including physical oceanography course material from Texas A&M University, USA

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Education Material about Ocean Colour Remote Sensing

http://www.ioccg.org/education/education.html

 

Lecture material from courses and workshops in pdf format, and links to other web sites with information on ocean-colour remote sensing

International Ocean Colour Coordinating Group (IOCCG)


SeaWiFS Teacher’s Resources

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEAWIFS/TEACHERS/

 

Tutorials and other educational resources with a focus on ocean colour remote sensing

GSFC/NASA, USA

 

State of the Cryosphere

http://nsidc.org/sotc/index.html

 

This tutorial provides an overview of the status of snow and ice as indicators of climate change, including a section on global sea ice extent and remote sensing.

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)/ Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), USA

 

GlobeSAR-2 Educational Resources for Radar Remote Sensing

http://www.ccrs.nrcan.gc.ca/ccrs/learn/tutorials/gsarcd/intro_e.html

 

This package provides a comprehensive and unique set of radar remote sensing training materials for use at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The material is available in English/French and Spanish/Portuguese (The latter one on CD only).

GlobeSAR-2 Program, Canadian Center for Remote Sensing (CCRS), Canada

 

Winds Homepage

http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov/

 

Introduction to scatterometry and educational resources about scatterometry based on data from the NSCAT, QuickSCAT, and ADEOS-2 missions.

JPL/NASA, USA

 

Other Educational Resources On Remote Sensing

 

GIS and Remote Sensing Sites

http://www.geog.uu.nl/nicegeo.html#gis

 

Long alphabetical listing of GIS and remote sensing web sites.

Utrecht University, The Netherlands

 

Additional links to Remote Sensing Tutorials

http://carstad.gsfc.nasa.gov/Topics/Tutorials.htm

 

Links to remote sensing tutorials and glossaries

GSFC/NASA, USA

 


7. Remote Sensing Software and Tools

This section provides a selection of freely available remote sensing, image interpretation, and visualisation software and tools.

 

General Remote Sensing Software and Tools

 

Photo Interpretation Tool (PIT)

http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/AppB/B6.html

 

PIT is a training tool for learning by doing the basics of image processing. It reads Landsat, AVHRR, and GOES data.

Remote Sensing Tutorial, NASA, USA

 

The UNESCO Bilko Project

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/tcmweb/bilko/

 

Bilko is a specially commissioned educational image-processing software package for PCs. The project has provided eight lessons on the applications of remote sensing in oceanography and coastal management.

University of Newcastle on Tyne, UK

 

Copenhagen Image Processing System (Chips)

http://www.geogr.ku.dk/chips/index.htm

 

Chips, the Copenhagen Image Processing System, is a general-purpose software package for remote sensing image processing and spatial data analysis with extensive support for NOAA AVHRR data.

GRAS, Institute of Geography, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 

Sistema de Processamento de Informações Georeferenciadas (SPRING)

http://www.dpi.inpe.br/spring/english/index.html

 

SPRING is a state-of-the-art GIS and remote sensing image processing system with an object-oriented data model which provides for the integration of raster and vector data representations in a single environment.

National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brasil

 

McIDAS-Lite Homepage

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mclite/

 

McIDAS-Lite is a free image viewer that provides a simple tool for working with image files that are in McIDAS area or MODIS HDF format.

Space Science and Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

 

remotesensing.org

http://www.remotesensing.org/

 

This site is dedicated to making Remote Sensing algorithms, code, and technology available to all interested parties. Resources are provided to facilitate communication and development of open source tools.

 

Sensor-specific Software and Tools

 

ESA ENVISAT and ERS Toolboxes

http://earth.esa.int/services/tools_table.html

 

Basic ERS and Envisat toolboxes are collections of executable programs which have been developed to facilitate the utilisation viewing and processing of data from ERS and ENVISAT sensors.

Earth Observation User Services, ESA

 

SeaDAS SeaWIFS Data Analysis System

http://seadas.gsfc.nasa.gov/

 

SeaDAS is a comprehensive image analysis package for the processing, display, analysis, and quality control of all SeaWiFS data products, ADEOS/OCTS, MOS, CZCS. Display-only capability is available for MODIS Ocean products, and AVHRR SST files.

SeaDAS Development Group, NASA/GSFC, USA

 

MODIS Data Tools and Services

http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/MODIS/software.shtml

 

Comprehensive list of software to process data from the MODIS instrument on EOS-Terra/Aqua. Most of the software is freely available and can be downloaded via the Web.

Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC), NASA/GSFC, USA

 

HDF and HDF-EOS Software List

http://hdfeos.gsfc.nasa.gov/hdfeos/softwarelist.cfm

 

List of Software which supports HDF or HDF-EOS data formats. Includes Visualisation Applications, Libraries and Toolkits, Utilities, Documentation, and Format Converters.

HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center, NASA/GSFC, USA

 

Visualisation Software and Tools

 

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

http://www.gimp.org/

 

The GIMP is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

GNU General Public Licence

 

The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT)

http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

 

GMT is a free, open source collection of ~60 tools (available for Unix, Windows, and Mac) that allow users to manipulate (x,y) and (x,y,z) data sets (including filtering, trend fitting, gridding, projecting, etc.) and produce Encapsulated PostScript File (EPS) illustrations. GMT supports 25 common map projections plus linear, log, and power scaling, and comes with support data such as coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries.

GNU General Public Licence

 

Vis5D+ Homepage

http://vis5d.sourceforge.net/

 

A free OpenGL-based volumetric visualization program for scientific datasets in 3+ dimensions.

Hosted at SourceForge

 



II. Ocean Models

This section provides a selection of ocean circulation and ecosystem models.

 

Ocean Circulation Models

 

POM Homepage

http://www.aos.princeton.edu/WWWPUBLIC/htdocs.pom/

 

POM is a sigma coordinate, free surface, primitive equation ocean model, which includes a turbulence sub-mode.

Princeton University, USA.

 

MITgcm Homepage

http://mitgcm.lcs.mit.edu/

 

The MITgcm (MIT General Circulation Model) is a numerical model for studying the ocean and atmosphere.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

 

COHERENS Homepage

http://www.mumm.ac.be/coherens/

 

COHERENS is a three-dimensional hydrodynamic multi-purpose model for coastal and shelf seas, which is coupled to biological, resuspension and contaminant models, and resolves mesoscale to seasonal scale processes.

Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models and the Scheldt estuary (MUMM), Belgium.


POP - Los Alamos Parallel Ocean Programme (POP)
http://climate.lanl.gov/Models/POP/index.htm

 

POP is an ocean circulation model derived from earlier models of Bryan, Cox, Semtner and Chervin in which depth is used as the vertical coordinate.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

 

MOM Homepage

http://www.gfdl.gov/~smg/MOM/MOM.html

 

The GFDL Modular Ocean Model is a 3-dimensional, z-coordinate, primitive equation ocean circulation model.

GDFL/NASA, USA.

 

ROMS Homepage

http://marine.rutgers.edu/po/index.php?model=roms&page

 

The Regional Ocean Model System (ROMS) is a free-surface, hydrostatic, primitive equation ocean model.

Rutgers University, USA.

 

HYCOM Homepage

http://hycom.rsmas.miami.edu/index.shtml

 

The HYCOM consortium is a multi-institutional effort funded by the National Ocean Partnership Program (NOPP) to develop and evaluate a data-assimilative hybrid isopycnal-sigma-pressure (generalized) coordinate ocean model (called HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model or HYCOM). Available products include global and basin scale simulations, reanalysis, and ocean prediction.

University of Miami, USA

 

Stephen Baum’s Homepage

http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/ocean_models.html

 

Extensive list of models on ocean circulation, sea Ice, and waves.

 

Links to further Ocean Models

http://www.gfdl.gov/~smg/MOM/MOM_others.html

 

Partial set of links to other ocean models, including HIM, HOPE, MICOM, OCCAM, OPA, POSUM, SPEM, SCRUM, and others.

GDFL/NASA, USA

 

Ecosystem Models

 

ERSEM Homepage

http://www.pml.ac.uk/ecomodels/oldpages/ersem.htm

 

Conceived as a generic model, when coupled to a qualitatively correct physical model, the European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM) is designed to be capable of correctly simulating the spatial pattern of ecological fluxes throughout the seasonal cycle and across eutrophic to oligotrophic gradients.

Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK

 

Vertically Generalized Production Model (VGPM)

http://marine.rutgers.edu/opp/

 

VGPM is a model to estimate primary productivity distribution and total global productivity from Chlorophyll, SST, as well as sea surface irradiance and photoperiod input data.

Rutgers University, USA

 

ECOHAM1 Homepage

http://www.ifm.uni-hamburg.de/

 

The Ecological North Sea Model Hamburg, Version 1 (ECOHAM1) is a computer model to calculate annual and long-term phytoplankton dynamics for shelf seas in a three-dimensional physical environment.

University of Hamburg, Germany