11. Links

Hoofdstuk 1. Wat zijn stromen en waarom zijn ze belangrijk?

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.
Verantwoordelijke: Cape Farewell
URL: http://www.capefarewell.com
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: MERCATOR
URL: http://www.mercator-ocean.fr/
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
NCOF Home Page Information on ocean forecasting from the UK National Centre for Ocean Forecasting (NCOF)
Verantwoordelijke: UK Met Office / Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
URL: http://www.ncof.co.uk/
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
DMI Centre for Ocean and Ice Access to operational forecasts from the Danish Meteorological Institute.
Verantwoordelijke: Danish Met Office
URL: http://ocean.dmi.dk/
Laatste toegang: 20.08.2008
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.
Verantwoordelijke: Marine Stewardship Council
URL: http://www.msc.org/
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: NOAA/UNEP
URL: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/content/noaa-launches-new-national-marine-ecosystem-status-web-portal
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
Leatherback Turtles' Newly Discovered Migration Route May Be Roadmap To Salvation How knowledge of migration routes could guide fishing policy.
Verantwoordelijke: Science Daily
URL: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714202504.htm
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
Recovery Plan for U.S. Pacific Populations of the Loggerhead Turtle
Plan outlining conservation measures (PDF)
Verantwoordelijke: 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
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: UK Met Office
URL: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/climate/seasonal-to-decadal/gpc-outlooks
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
Global climate Overview of climate in different regions of the world; good maps and figures.
Verantwoordelijke: Waether-climate.org.uk
URL: http://www.weather-climate.org.uk/13.php
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025

Hoofdstuk 2. Windgedreven oppervlaktestromen

Climate variability and El Niňo Good explanation of El Niňo / La Niňa, with emphasis on impacts on Austrialia and Southeast Asia.
Verantwoordelijke: Australian Bureau of Meteorology
URL: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
UNESCO-Bilko image processing software Access to software used to process many of the images used in the oceancurrents module
Verantwoordelijke: UNESCO-Bilko Project (hosted at National Oceanography Centre, Southampton)
URL: https://www.bilko.org/
Laatste toegang: 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
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: American Geophysical Union (AGU)
URL: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/94EO01056
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025

Hoofdstuk 3. De mondiale transportband

The Thermohaline Ocean Circulation Overview of the THC, what drives it, and its effect on climate
Verantwoordelijke: Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
URL: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/~stefan/thc_fact_sheet.html
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025

Hoofdstuk 4. Stromen en leven in de oceaan

Ocean Color Web NASA Goddard ocean colour home page: access to satellite data from SeaWiFS and MODIS-Aqua ocean colour instruments
Verantwoordelijke: NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre
URL: http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: IOCCG
URL: https://ioccg.org/
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025

Hoofdstuk 5. Locale stromen

Waves, Tides and Shallow Water Processes
Open University
Elsevier, 1989
URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780080363721/waves-tides-and-shallow-water-processes
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025

Hoofdstuk 6. Stromen metingen

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.
Verantwoordelijke: AVISO (NASA-JPL and CNES)
URL: https://www.aviso.altimetry.fr/en/home.html
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
Argo Home Page Home page of the international Argo Float programme, with information about Argo, access to data etc.
Verantwoordelijke: Argo / University of California, San Diego
URL: https://argo.ucsd.edu/
Laatste toegang: 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.
Verantwoordelijke: National Oceanography Centre, Southampton
URL: https://noc.ac.uk/projects/mocca
Laatste toegang: 23.09.2025
De bathythermograaf De bathythermograaf is een apparaat waarmee de watertemperatuur als functie van de druk wordt gemeten. Het werd in 1937 ontwikkeld door Athelstan F. Spilhaus en was de eerste sonde die continu temperatuurprofielen tot een diepte van ongeveer 150 m kon registreren.
Verantwoordelijke: EliScholar, Yale University, USA
URL: https://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1521&context=journal_of_marine_research
Laatste toegang: 17.09.2026