NASA: Perpetual Ocean

This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during […]

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Chris Machens

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February 23, 2014

This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during the period from June 2005 through Decemeber 2007. The visualization does not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data to create a simple, visceral experience.

This visualization was produced using NASA/JPL’s computational model called Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean, Phase II or ECCO2.. ECCO2 is high resolution model of the global ocean and sea-ice. ECCO2 attempts to model the oceans and sea ice to increasingly accurate 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. The dark patterns under the ocean represent the undersea bathymetry. Topographic land exaggeration is 20x and bathymetric exaggeration is 40x.

This video is public domain and can be downloaded at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/…

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34 Comments

  1. Don Blake March 30, 2012 at 3:33 am - Reply

    Very cool !! I’m sure the marine bioligist will be very interested in this
    .

  2. Films4You March 30, 2012 at 7:11 pm - Reply

    One side of out Moon almost all blank, (not many craters)… One Side of
    our Earth almost all water… A coincidence?

  3. Mr3lawe333 March 30, 2012 at 10:21 pm - Reply

    THANKS NASA

  4. Cunelito April 9, 2012 at 3:38 am - Reply

    Wouldn’t that be something!

  5. Cunelito April 11, 2012 at 4:12 pm - Reply

    Isn’t that just terr(or)ible…..

  6. MsSpaceCake April 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm - Reply

    @sniped101 not if we fight for her…

  7. thebel89 April 12, 2012 at 9:35 am - Reply

    Gulf Stream from Africa to Europe? Its actually visible here and its from
    Gulf of Mexico to Europe, thats why its called Gulf Stream :D

  8. thebel89 April 12, 2012 at 9:38 am - Reply

    And you can see South Equatorial stream that connects to Gulf Stream around
    0:35

  9. Pam Dolson April 22, 2012 at 7:58 pm - Reply

    the proof is all around, including the video that started this
    conversation. I know the Truth. and you can know it too. 1-855-UCANKNOW

  10. ADDMOREMAPS April 22, 2012 at 8:46 pm - Reply

    The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to
    the presence of those who think they`ve found it.

  11. str33tf0x September 26, 2012 at 12:31 pm - Reply

    Only humans can f** up the beauty of earth with senseless discussion of
    what to believe or not. Its a picture and it tells you what the earth looks
    like. If you don’t like it, go somewhere else. Another universe, where the
    rules are simpler, more philosophically easy and psychologically pleasing
    (~Feynman)

  12. TheTheratfarmer October 20, 2012 at 1:02 pm - Reply

    what>??

  13. TheTheratfarmer October 20, 2012 at 1:03 pm - Reply

    who are you? explain.

  14. BlackPDigitalMedia October 20, 2012 at 2:10 pm - Reply

    @judgegixxer haha!

  15. Baldoxxx4000 October 20, 2012 at 4:07 pm - Reply

    Wheres that oil spill?

  16. John Arcia October 20, 2012 at 4:25 pm - Reply

    So you are an idiot, because you comment this video. I hope your the first
    one to die.

  17. arcaniser October 20, 2012 at 5:57 pm - Reply

    actually this is not video , but a graphical representacion so it was
    recreated by a human and a computer …

  18. el Grau October 20, 2012 at 6:42 pm - Reply

    damn, nature, you scary! and also beautiful..

  19. ญาณี พึ่งแสงสุวรรณ October 20, 2012 at 7:54 pm - Reply

    yes

  20. EdwardMarshall1982 October 20, 2012 at 10:55 pm - Reply

    C’mon man. I was joking. I am a theist, but I actually know what influences
    ocean currents. God doesn’t belong in Science, but to call ocean currents
    random unorganized chaos only speaks to how much you understand. Understand?

  21. Wullop Khin October 21, 2012 at 3:46 am - Reply

    Great demonstration, always great.

  22. turtle5181 October 22, 2012 at 6:07 pm - Reply

    LMAO… sorry, couldnt resist….

  23. futurestoryteller October 22, 2012 at 9:16 pm - Reply

    I don’t make the rules? Wow, you really are a fucking dunce, I don’t have
    to read the rest of your shit. You’re clearly a retard.

  24. xXxG3T0WN3DxXx October 25, 2012 at 4:19 am - Reply

    let me just say that i have faith in God and i do believe there is a heaven
    and hell but i also believe in science. prove to me he exists you cant only
    by faith can YOU believe. and all those people who supposedly saw him its
    more of a medical thing were the tumor made him visualize events and makes
    it look like you talked or saw him. NO ONE knows for sure intill they die,
    so till then, stop being a jackass

  25. xXxG3T0WN3DxXx October 25, 2012 at 6:35 am - Reply

    yes obviously you went into detail clearly! Your arguing over that its GOD
    when fucking neither of us or anyone for that matter has proof its just
    funny how science has taught us more than a book written thousands of years
    ago by people that weren’t intelligent as they are now if those people were
    alive in today i bet you that book would be re vamped. it has been changed
    so many times / the years and the actual 1st edition which was Hebrew has
    been misunderstood. as Lewis Black even says that.

  26. bluebear668 September 24, 2013 at 1:57 pm - Reply

    God created a massive toilet

  27. Antonio Sanchez October 31, 2013 at 1:33 pm - Reply

    One World, one Ocean
    love this video

  28. Andrea Gatley November 11, 2013 at 3:53 am - Reply

    This is a great animation of the ocean currents.

  29. Maria Gaiquiy December 14, 2013 at 10:39 am - Reply

    lubie to

  30. Pedro Jacobi February 10, 2014 at 8:06 pm - Reply

    Interesting. It shows the Coriollis effect and the formation of
    individual cyclones that may travel thousands of kilometers. This explains
    why it is so difficult to predict the weather

  31. Tahu Erlbeck March 6, 2014 at 11:26 pm - Reply

    I waited 2mins to see New Zealand! Dang it – still, cool video!

  32. Claude Lemessy March 13, 2014 at 8:21 pm - Reply

    You guys who show gross disrespect to the creator GOD who created you and
    all things that exsist around you all, Start to be thank full to the Great
    GOD for the breath of life, let me ask you all a question, where dose
    thought come from? ( these videos are great)

  33. Irina Tcherednichenko May 21, 2014 at 3:12 pm - Reply

    *”Published on Mar 29, 2012*
    *This visualization shows ocean surface currents around the world during
    the period from June 2005 through Decemeber 2007. The visualization does
    not include a narration or annotations; the goal was to use ocean flow data
    to create a simple, visceral experience.”*

  34. Terence Stigers June 9, 2014 at 12:26 am - Reply

    This is awesome.

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