Reference Materials

Basic Information about the Gulf Stream and Ocean Currents
Neptune's Web - Facts of oceanography.
Water on the Move; Current Events - Information about ocean currents
Currents, Waves & Tides - Easy to understand explanations
Ocean Currents - Advanced Level Material
Surface Ocean Circulation - Elements of Oceanography
The Gulf Stream - Links to the history of the Gulf Stream
JHU/APL Ocean Currents Web Site - Web site for students and teachers who want to know more about ocean currents and the role that oceans play in storing heat and influencing global climate.
How does the Ocean Move?  COOLClassroom (without audio, script)
How does the Ocean Move?  COOLClassroom (with audio)

Online Projects about the Gulf Stream and/or Ocean Currents
Victor the Vector
Ocean Currents, We All Go with the Flow - Smithsonian Lesson 
Classic CZCS Scenes: Chapter 6: The Gulf Stream 
Physical Oceanography from Space - Lessons from NASA
Oceanography, Ben Franklin and the Gulf Stream - Lesson from NASA
C.O.O.L.Classroom - Activities for 6th through 9th grade
YOTO Drifters in the Caribbean Sea and the Birth of the Gulf Stream
SeaWIFS Project - Learn more about ocean color - look a Teacher's Guide
Preparing to Race - Example of a math class charting the Gulf Stream to determine a sailor's best route


Online Databases
NODC Interactive Data Access and Retrieval System
NOAAServer - Search the NOAA database
METOC Information Server - Search the Naval Database for Meterology


Information about the Sargasso Sea
Bermuda's Coral Reefs - Sargassum
Image of the Sargasso Sea


Scientific Papers about the Gulf Stream
A Primer on Ocean Currents - Measurements and Lingo of Physical Oceanographers (WHOI Coastal Brief: 1994-05 )

Water Takes a Peculiar Turn in the Gulf Stream - Earth in Space, Vol. 7, No. 3, p.6-7. December, 1994 © 1994 American Geophysical Union