Global Sea Surface Currents and Temperature
This visualization was produced using model output from the joint MIT/JPL project entitled Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II (ECCO2). ECCO2 uses the MIT general circulation model (MITgcm) to synthesize satellite and in-situ data of the global ocean and sea-ice at resolutions that begin to resolve ocean eddies and other narrow current systems, which transport heat and carbon in the oceans. The ECCO2 model simulates ocean flows at all depths, but only surface flows are used in this visualization.



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Credits
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio
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Animators
- Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC)
- Horace Mitchell (NASA/GSFC)
- Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Project support
- Eric Sokolowsky (Global Science and Technology, Inc.)
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Producer
- Michael Starobin (HTSI)
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Scientists
- Hong Zhang (UCLA)
- Dimitris Menemenlis (NASA/JPL CalTech)
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, March 16, 2012.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, February 18, 2025 at 12:01 AM EST.
Missions
This page is related to the following missions:Datasets used
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GTOPO30 Topography and Bathymetry
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ECCO2 (ECCO2 High Resolution Ocean and Sea Ice Model)
ID: 707
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