2025年2月25日 · Ocean water is on the move, affecting your climate, your local ecosystem, and the seafood that you eat. Ocean currents, abiotic features of the environment, are continuous and directed movements of ocean water. These currents are on the ocean’s surface and in its depths, flowing both locally and globally.

2025年3月25日 · Graphic depicting satellite captured, bathymetric data of the western Atlantic Ocean Basin and its ocean floor features. (Image credit: NOAA's National Environmental Satellite and Information Service)

2021年6月15日 · Ocean exploration tests us, educates us, and gives us hope. It’s a captivating journey into the lifeblood of our planet. As the only federal agency with a program dedicated to ocean exploration, NOAA leads U.S. efforts to dive deep into new frontiers, pushing the boundaries of ocean science and sharing the value and thrill of discovery.

2018年6月12日 · Whether protecting precious resources, exploring hidden realms teeming with life, or championing breakthroughs in ocean science and technology, NOAA is a vital presence in the global ocean. This story map highlights some of NOAA's leading-edge initiatives.

2025年2月25日 · NOAA collects real-time data from satellites, buoys, weather stations, citizen scientists, and more. See what is happening right now in this collection of ocean, freshwater, and atmospheric resources.

2025年2月25日 · Integrated Ocean Observing Systems (IOOS) Data Portals [Advanced] IOOS provides data about marine environments, including analyses of historical data, alerts based on current conditions, and forecasts of future conditions based on model predictions. IOOS links to hundreds of data sources operated by regional ocean observing systems across the United States and its territories. Interactive map ...

2019年3月5日 · Changes can destabilize the world's weather patterns and ocean circulation, affecting everything from food security and human, fish and wildlife health, to safe navigation, local to global economies, and national security. Greener, warmer and increasingly accessible, the Arctic is now changing faster than anywhere else on Earth.

Sea Level Rise Viewer: Visualize community-level impacts from coastal flooding or sea level rise (up to 10 feet above average high tides) at U.S. coastal locations.

2024年12月13日 · The maritime zones recognized under international law include internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone (EEZ), the continental shelf, the high seas, and the Area. The breadth of the territorial sea, contiguous zone, and EEZ (and in some cases the continental shelf) is measured from the

2023年3月28日 · It is the pitch-black bottom layer of the ocean. The water temperature is constantly near freezing, and only a few creatures can be found at these crushing depths. The name (abyss) comes from a Greek word meaning "no bottom" because they thought the ocean was bottomless. Three-quarters of the area of the deep-ocean floor lies in this zone.